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	White House Plumbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
		On July 1, David Young joined the White House and together with Egil Krogh penned a memorandum to Nixon advisors Haldeman and John Ehrlichman advocating the formation of a White House Special Investigations Unit.
		The Plumbers first task was the burglary of the office of Ellsberg's Los Angeles psychiatrist, Lewis J. Fielding, in an effort to uncover evidence to discredit Ellsberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_House_Plumbers (727 words)

	House, White, United, Category, public, early, whitehouse, robots, first, Roosevelt, website, until, tours - White House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America.
		As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is often used as a synonym for the president's administration.
		The White House was attacked again on August 16, 1841, when U.S. President John Tyler vetoed a bill which called for the reestablishment of the Second Bank of the United States.
	www.alphasearch.org /White-House.html (2183 words)

	Overview - White House Museum
		Although the White House is one of the most famous buildings in the world and hosts millions of visitors every year, few people have a good understanding of its layout and history.
		The White House sits at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, the capital city of the United States, in the District of Columbia (DC), a federal district carved out of neighboring Maryland and Virginia.
		Construction of the White House was was begun on October 13, 1792.
	www.whitehousemuseum.org /overview.htm (1160 words)

	PLUMBING HISTORY - The Plumbing in the White House
		The cornerstone of the White House was laid on Oct.12, 1792---the 300th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Western Hemisphere.
		While the exterior and much of the interior of the White House was constructed of materials which are expected to last for 300 years, the plumbing fixtures were installed with the idea that they could be replaced without major reconstruction in about 20 years.
		A cistern with a tunnel leading toward the White House was uncovered near the corner of 13th and I Streets.
	www.plumbingsupply.com /pmwhitehouse.html (3653 words)

	White House Plumbing
		Congress in part can be blamed for that situation, because although the White House is a private residence for the President and his family, it is public property, and appropriation decisions were made on Capitol Hill.
		The cornerstone of the White House was laid on Oct. 12, 1792 - the 300th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Western Hemisphere.
		A cistern with a tunnel leading toward the White House was uncovered near the comer of 13th and I Streets.
	www.theplumber.com /white.html (2880 words)

	John Ehrlichman - MSN Encarta
		On April 30, 1973, Nixon announced the resignations of Ehrlichman, White House Chief of Staff H.
		Nixon's “housecleaning” was an attempt to demonstrate that the White House was committed to full investigation of the Watergate affair.
		Ehrlichman was later indicted for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury in connection with the Watergate break-in, for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, and for lying to grand juries and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585440/Ehrlichman_John_D.html (373 words)

	Midnight Plumbers - Famous Plumbers
		General Dostum is the whisky-drinking former plumber who rose through the ranks of the Afghan puppet army that the Soviet Union ran in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
		One of rock and roll's enduring performers, Cocker has survived the sixties, a low period in the seventies, made a comeback in the eighties, and continues to be a solid and consistent performer in the nineties and on into the 21st century.
		This plumber and owner of the Jacaranda club was the man who took them to Hamburg in 1960 and set them on the road to a relatively successful career.
	www.midnightplumbers.com /features/famous.html (2341 words)

	White House - Employees And Clerical Staff
		Both he and she always have a kind salutation for those who are connected with the White House, but that he has had some friends to luncheon with him, and quite a number of private dinners.
		The White House Steward is the virtual autocrat of the official table and cuisine at the President's house.
		They are required to report at the White House late on the afternoon of the State dinner, and are divided into squads and are thoroughly drilled in the part each is to play in the evening's entertainment.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/white-house-history-13.shtml (2414 words)

	Watergate Chronology
		The White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders to plug leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
		The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee, but the committee insists that the tapes themselves must be turned over.
		Rose Mary Woods, 87, the Nixon White House secretary whose improbable stretch was supposed to account for part of an 18 ½-minute gap in a crucial Watergate tape, dies at a nursing home in Alliance, Ohio, where she lived.
	www.raritanval.edu /StudentActivities/sjc/watergate_chronology.htm (1419 words)

	Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - About the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service's ...
		The very sight of the White House, symbolic of all that this nation stands for, evokes pride in America’s past and optimistic hope for her future.
		While the president and his family are temporary residents of the White House, hoping to renew their four-year lease at election time, a dedicated workforce of butlers, maids, engineers, housemen, chefs, electricians, florists, ushers, doormen, carpenters and plumbers operate, maintain and help preserve the 132-room executive mansion.
		The White House Historical Association is a nonprofit institution dedicated to enhancing the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the White House.
	www.sites.si.edu /exhibitions/exhibits/white_house_workers/main.htm (847 words)

	water.html
		Now that the White House plumbers had the financial backing and support they were ready to begin their missions to protect the Nixon administration.
		The plumbers were to move their operation to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. The burglars moved into the hotel and registered as members of the Ameritus Corporation of Miami.
		The White House did cover-up the fact that one of the seven put on trial was a White House consultant.
	harwich.edu /depts/history/HHJ/water.html (2963 words)

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		After the men got in, E. Howard Hunt, longtime CIA clandestine officer and fellow Plumber arrived with the news that Fielding had left his house and was possibly on his way back to his office.
		On this particular night, the Plumbers failed to gain access due to the alarms that were supposedly turned on at eleven o'clock.
		On July 27-30, the House Judiciary Committee, whose public hearings had disclosed evidence of illegal White House activities, recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas.
	members.tripod.com /~the_1970s/plumbers.html (2084 words)

	Watergate - █ FURTHER READING:
		The White House, and President Richard Nixon himself, were soon implicated, elevating the Watergate incident to full-fledged political scandal at the highest political level.
		A letter from McCord to Judge Sirica on March 23 formally implicated the White House plumbers, CREEP, and the president in the Watergate scandal.
		In addition, the involvement of the White House implied the Office of the President resorted to gross abuses of its power and authority.
	www.espionageinfo.com /Vo-Z/Watergate.html (1003 words)

	Identify
		John W. Dean III -- The White House counsel who warned Nixon of a cancer growing on the presidency and was dismissed; some revisionist Watergate buffs blame him for the coverup.
		The White House investigative unit known as the "Plumbers" later broke into office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, looking for information to discredit him.
		An Eisenhower official who served as commerce secretary in the first Nixon Cabinet and finance chairman for the Committee for the Re-election of the President, Maurice Stans was indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury.
	powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us /online/virtualcivics/identify.htm (1578 words)

	President Signs H.R. 4440, the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005
		Helping people find housing is going to be one of the really important challenges that we all face together in order to help these areas rebuild.
		And what I'm telling you is we're going to work to make sure housing is available for you, and there's a training center, or training program, that will help you match your desire to work with the jobs which actually exist.
		If you're from Mississippi, we want those new jobs to go to Mississippi residents, and we want to help the Mississippi community college, for example, to become a vital training center for the jobs which are going to be needed to help this important part of our country get back up on its feet.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2005/12/20051221-4.html (1377 words)

	Leader of Nixon's 'plumbers' regrets loss of integrity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The house of cards finally collapsed when a tape of an Oval Office conversation held six days after the burglary between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, revealed that the president was involved in covering up the crime.
		Four of the plumbers involved in that break-in -- Liddy, Hunt, Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez -- were subsequently implicated in the Watergate burglary, this time on the payroll of the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
		The plumbers were organized in the summer of 1971 after Ellsberg, a former Defense Department official, leaked the Pentagon Papers, detailing U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to The New York Times.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/74766_watergate15.shtml (1393 words)

	Webguild Sentinel Kissinger's Offenses
		He participated in the wiretapping of his own staffers in the White House, and he ordered the bugging of a New York Times reporter.
		He plotted with Nixon and the CIA to overthrow the democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende and engineered the destabilization of Chile, which led to a bloody military coup and the installation of a totalitarian, murderous regime.
		He was aware of, and somewhat involved in, the creation of the White House "plumbers" unit, the band of covert agents who pulled off (and bungled) the Watergate caper.
	www.webguild.com /sentinel/kissingers_offenses.htm (227 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Lost Tapes Caper
		Another aspect of reality that the White House is currently trying to revise is the date when Nixon first learned that two of the tapes were missing.
		The first story out of the White House, announced on Wednesday, was that the non-existence of the tapes wasn't discovered until Saturday.
		The White House said Tuesday that Nixon did in fact have such a conversation with Kleindienst, and also said that Cox's leak was proof of his partisanship.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=152460 (730 words)

	Photographing History: Timeline
		White House staff and associated persons testify before Senate committee investigating potential abuses of power and illegal activities conducted by the president or his staff.
		Alexander Butterfield testifies to the existence of taped White House conversations; later in July, Nixon refuses to release tapes, citing executive privilege.
		House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry against Nixon to be conducted by House Judiciary Committee.
	americanhistory.si.edu /maroon/time.htm (968 words)

	the plumbers secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Full text of the article, 'The Plumbers Secret to Air Nationally on QVC Jan. 19' from Business Wire, a publication in the field of Business and Finance, is provided free of charge by LookSmart's FindArticles service.
		Before Watergate there were the plumbers, called that because their task was to plug security leaks in any...
		The White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert Nixon White House Special...
	www.call-plumber.com /swift/the-plumbers-secret.html (387 words)

	White House Iraq 'Plumbers Unit' Behind Plame Leak
		Fitzgerald was charged with investigating the leak by "two senior Administration officials" of the identity of CIA "non-official cover" officer Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV.
		Wilson had been sent by the CIA to Niger in February 2002 on a fact-finding mission, to determine the credibility of reports that Iraq had been seeking large quantities of "yellowcake" uranium from the African state, for the purpose of building a nuclear bomb.
		At that point, according to a number of Washington sources familiar with the internal White House deliberations, the decision was made that the focus of attention had to be on making the case that Saddam Hussein was on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2005/3229plumbers_plame.html (1382 words)

	The White House Historical Association > Classroom
		With an overflow crowd of cabinet members, the leaders and committee powers of Congress, White House staff, and prime-time television networks, Nixon nominated Gerald R. Ford as vice president of the United States at the White House on October 12, 1973.
		After a reception at the White House, the Fords left for their home across the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia–under guard by the Secret Service for the first time.
		Furthermore, when Speaker Carl Albert called the House of Representatives to order on the Tuesday morning after the firings, a score of them were waiting in line to introduce resolutions of impeachment of the president of the United States.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /04/subs/04_a03_a03.html (2474 words)

	L. Patrick Gray; FBI chief criticized for Watergate probe \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Gray was never indicted for any Watergate-related misdeeds, but descriptions of him as a Nixon loyalist who helped thwart the investigation and as someone the White House thought could be pushed around dogged him in the years after the scandal.
		He said he burned files from the safe of E. Howard Hunt, a member of the White House "plumbers," in his home fireplace because he had been ordered to do so and the files were unrelated to Watergate.
		He said he provided internal FBI files to the White House only after he had been cleared to do so by the bureau's general counsel.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050710/news_mz1j10gray.html (636 words)

	New Watergate Soaks White House
		Two weeks ago the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee issued an interim report citing the "dearth" of hard data underpinning the National Intelligence Estimate, which was used to justify the war on Iraq.
		Though sometimes forgotten, the cluster of crimes and misdeeds associated with the White House "plumbers" unit was the outgrowth of a rancorous dispute inside the administration over U.S. intervention abroad.
		Eventually their preoccupation with "leaks" produced the plumbers and precipitated the chain of events that led to the Watergate burglary.
	www.commondreams.org /scriptfiles/views03/1007-03.htm (835 words)

	washingtonpost.com - watergate scandal and deep throat update, john ehrlichman
		President Nixon's assistant for domestic affairs, John D. Ehrlichman, directed the White House "plumbers" unit.
		He also approved the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press.
		Ehrlichman resigned from his White House post in 1973; he was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury in the Watergate case and of conspiracy in the Ellsberg case.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/johnehrlichan.html (169 words)

	Non-Fictional Stories Template
		During the 1800s, the Presidents and their families who lived in the White House brought their own personal staff to take care of their needs.
		As a museum of American history, the White House contains many treasures that are as old as the building itself: paintings, furniture, and china, for example.
		Since the White House is a place for official presidential ceremonies, the staff moves furniture, sets up stages, and plans formal dinners.
	www.highlightskids.com /Stories/NonFiction/NF0407_whiteHouse.asp (785 words)

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