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Friday, May 26, 1972
- Hunt and Liddy along with their team, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Felipe De Diego, Virgilio Gonzalez, and Reinaldo Pico check in as guests to the Watergate Hotel. That evening, the staff of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) inside the Watergate work late and the alarms kick on stranding Hunt and Gonzalez in a closet overnight.
"Now, the President may be right in how he reads the Constitution, but he may also be wrong. And if he is wrong, who is there to tell him so? And if there is no one, the President, of course, is free to pursue his course of erroneous interpretations. What then becomes of our constitutional form of government? . . . This nation’s constitutional form of government is in serious jeopardy if the President, any President, is to say that the Constitution means what he says it does and that there is no one, not even the Supreme Court, to tell him otherwise. "
Leon Jaworski | Special Prosecutor