ey one good time. They went and distributed phony invitations, to black communities in Milwaukee, to a free all you can eat lunch with beer and wine, and several special guests. when in fact the supposed lunch was non existent (118). Nixon's committees were also deeply involved in the cover-up and destroyed allot of evidence. "Within hours of the burglars' arrest, G. Gordon Liddy showed up at the CREEP office and began destroying his confidential files on the political-spying operation" (150). Also, Howard Hunt's safe in his office was drilled open and it contained, among other things, bugging equipment, a revolver, a psychological profile of Daniel J. Ellsberg, leakier of the pentagon papers, a state department cable that had been faked to make it appear that president John F. Kennedy had ordered the murder of president Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam (Heritage 30). John Ehrlichman (the presidents chief domestic affairs advisor) told John Dean to throw the "sensitive materials" over the Potomac river and at night to shred the paperwork (30).Also, L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI director destroyed the documents from Hunts safe and withheld word of there existence (Dorman 157). Nixon's chief aid, H. R. Haldman, also destroyed files which might prove to be potentially dangerous (157). As more problems came along, more pressure was being put on the men in jail to keep quiet. CREEP agreed to pay the men about 400,000 dollars total, after a five month period, of hush money. CREEP did not have that much money, so they put a down payment of 40,000 dollars, which was to be divid...
