Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 12, 2022
Operation Sandwedge was a proposed surveillance campaign that would have targeted people that U.S. president Richard Nixon considered his political enemies. The operation, intended to help Nixon's re-election campaign in the 1972 election, would have used illegal black bag operations to get information on the financial status and sexual activities of Nixon's opponents. It was also designed to target the Democratic Party and the movement opposed to the Vietnam War, as well as rivals within Nixon's own Republican Party. The proposals were put together in 1971 by Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, domestic affairs assistant John Ehrlichman (both pictured), and Jack Caulfield, a staffer. Control of the operation was passed to G. Gordon Liddy, who abandoned it in favor of a strategy of his own, Operation Gemstone, which included a plan to break into Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex. Liddy's plan eventually led to the downfall of Nixon's presidency. (Full article...)