The election would continue, and votes would be cast with no knowledge that anything unbecoming had unfolded in the midst of the campaign, much less that a bizarre local D.C. burglary potentially had ties to the Oval Office—until July 22, when the story roared back to life. That morning Newsday reported that Liddy had been fired from the campaign for refusing to cooperate with investigators. Later that week, the New York Times heightened the drama when it broke a major new revelation on its front page from one of its White House writers, Walter Rugaber.
