‘I was a puppet’: How I found myself in the middle of the Watergate scandal and what really worries me about Washington now

Donald Segretti was not long back from Vietnam, after being drafted, when he got a call from an old friend from the University of Southern California asking if he wanted to work for the President of the United States.

It sounded like a great opportunity but, unfortunately, it led to him becoming a member of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP) and his name ending up synonymous with Watergate.

Half a century on, aged 84, Segretti is as engaging as he was when 60 Minutes called him ‘the most unlikely of political saboteurs.’

Since then, he has remained studiously out

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