G. Gordon Liddy, a central figure in the Watergate scandal and a 1970s version of Roger Stone, died Tuesday at his daughter’s home in Virginia. He was 90.
According to the Washington Post, Liddy was an operative and one-time FBI agent for the Nixon campaign and one of the people who plotted the 1972 break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters, located at the Watergate Hotel, which led to every subsequent scandal being dubbed with a “-gate” suffix. After a prison term, Liddy became at various times a radio talk-show host, best-selling author, candidate for Congress, actor and promoter of gold investments. He infamously called ATF agents “jack-booted thugs” and urged people to aim their guns at their heads to miss bullet-proof vests if they were being arrested by them.