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Monday, July 03, 1972
- Hunt, feeling left hung out to dry, returns to DC and hires a lawyer prepared to tell all to the investigators.
- Gray destroys the documents from Hunt's White House safe he received from Dean.
- Gleason recruits Judy Hoback Miller (known only as "The Bookkeeper" in "All the President's Men" until revealing her identity in 1992), another CRP employee, who tells the FBI about the strange practices at CRP including a slush fund of cash.
"I'm not the press's favorite pin-up boy. If it hadn't been Watergate, there would probably have been something else."
Richard Nixon | President of the United States