White House Plumbers

The White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert Nixon White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971. Its job was to stop the leaking of confidential information (hence the "Plumbers" title) to the media during the Nixon administration. Its members branched into more nefarious projects working for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP, or the more derogatory CREEP) including the Watergate break-ins.

Notes

• {{fnb|1}} {{Book reference|Author=Hougan, Jim|Title=Secret Agenda|Publisher=Random House|Year=1984| ID=ISBN 0-394-51428-9}} p.29-30
• {{fnb|2}} Ibid. p.32-34
• {{fnb|3}} Ibid. p.36
• {{fnb|4}} {{Book reference|Author=Liddy, G. Gordon|Title=Will|Publisher=St. Martin's Press|Year=1980|ID=ISBN 0-312-88014-6}} p.147-148
• {{fnb|5}} Hougan, Secret Agenda, p. 38-40
• {{fnb|6}} Ibid. p.47
• {{fnb|7}} Liddy, Will, p.149