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on shrimp cocktail and filet mignon, drank Cutty Sark Scotch, and smoked cigars. As the others left around 10:30 p.m., Hunt and Gonzalez stayed behind in a closet, but party staffers were still at work in the DNC at the 11 p.m. cutoff. Adding insult to injury, the night guard then locked the banquet room doors and trapped Hunt and Gonzalez inside overnight. Hunt, nevertheless, was in good spirits when he finally managed to escape the next day—arriving in Liddy’s Watergate Hotel room and laughing about how he’d urinated into a partially empty bottle of Johnnie Walker Scotch.
Watergate: A New History
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