Cialdini raamat
and discretion of ten men.
• The Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Lawrence O'Brien,
whose Watergate office was to be burglarized and bugged, had no information
damaging enough to defeat the incumbent president. Nor were the Democrats
likely to get any, unless the administration did something very, very foolish.
Despite the obvious counsel of the previously mentioned reasons, the expen-
sive, chancy, pointless, and potentially calamitous proposal of a man whose judg-
ment was known to be questionable was approved. How could it be that intelligent,
accomplished men such as Mitchell and Magruder would do something so very,
very foolish? Perhaps the answer lies in a little-discussed fact: The $250,000 plan
they approved was not Liddy's first proposal. In fact, it represented a significant
concession on his part from two earlier proposals of immense proportions. The
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