That Sunday morning, the AP reported for the first time that one of the burglars, James McCord, was the security coordinator for the president’s reelection campaign, and John Mitchell issued a swift and stern statement from California: “The person involved is the proprietor of a private security agency who was employed by our committee months ago to assist with the installation of our security system. He has, as we understand it, a number of business clients and interests, and we have no knowledge of these relationships. We want to emphasize that this man and the other people involved were not
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