Committee for the Re-Election of the President

In addition to fundraising, the organization also engaged in political sabotage against Nixon's opponents, the various Democratic politicians running in the election.

Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds, and was involved in the Watergate scandal.

[2] The CRP used $500,000 in funds raised to re-elect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars.

This act helped turn the burglary into an explosive political scandal.

The burglars, as well as G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures (Watergate Seven), were indicted over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up.