G. Gordon Liddy was an American lawyer, FBI agent, talk show host, actor, and convicted felon who is best recognized for his role in the Watergate scandal as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit during the Nixon administration. Along with former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, he organized and directed the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in May and June 1972. After his accomplices were apprehended, he was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. Despite being boastful about his impeccable tradecraft, he made elementary mistakes that exposed his role as Nixon administration liaison and the resulting scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy, who released an autobiography and became a debater and speaker on the lecture circuit after serving just 52 months in prison, was fascinated with Hitler and Nazi Germany in his youth and has often publicly expressed his willingness to kill Washington D.C. columnist Jack Anderson and encouraged listeners of his radio program to shoot federal law enforcement officers in the head albeit in self-defense. He hosted syndicated talk-radio shows with a right-wing agenda. He also acted and made guest appearances in various films and television shows.