Nixon recognized certain things about the implementation of the burglary that seemed very fishy. How could the bugging of the DNC headquarters be carried out by pros, but have so many amateur-ish and bungling maneuvers? He also thought…” A break-in at Democratic Party headquarters…on whom would that be blamed?” Well, who was running against a Democrat for reelection that fall? Why, Richard Nixon of course.
Nixon knew how this would play out publicly. Dick Nixon: ruthless, paranoid, vengeful. Wouldn’t this burglary be just the kind of thing that Dick Nixon…aka “Tricky Dick” (the “liberal media’s” version of him) ...would do? Nixon’s opponent, George McGovern, made this charge repeatedly during the 1972 campaign.