Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks

WILL: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy

The date was June 4, 1973, the setting a closed session of Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee. G. Gordon Liddy was scheduled to testify before newsmen and TV cameras. But first he had to be sworn in for preliminary quizzing, and Ervin drawled the routine question: "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" Liddy's frank answer to the committee: "No."

It was Liddy's refusal to talk about his role in the Watergate scandal that sent him to prison for...

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