The new negative TV commercial attacking Gov. Jim Doyle, which features audio and video clips of Richard M. Nixon, is being brought to Wisconsin voters by someone who was deeply involved in helping Nixon cover up the Watergate scandal during the 1972 presidential campaign.
Steve King, chair of the Coalition for America's Families, which is airing the attack ad, is the Nixon campaign security man who repeatedly manhandled Martha Mitchell to keep her from talking to the press about Watergate, Mrs. Mitchell's biography says. King, a former Wisconsin Republican Party chair who ran for the US Senate in 1988, also is chair of Paul Bucher's campaign for attorney general.
King, an ex-FBI agent, was working as a security man for the Committee to Reelect the President, known as CREEP, in 1972. He was assigned as personal security escort for former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, the head of CREEP, and his outspoken wife, Martha, when the Watergate burglary became public. King later became head of security for CREEP, replacing his boss, John McCord, who was one of the Watergate burglars who broke into the Democratic Party's national
headquarters.
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