He had received word of an airplane crash near Chicago’s Midway Airport killing Dorothy Hunt, the wife of defendant Howard Hunt.66 In her suitcase was $10,000 in neatly piled one-hundred-dollar bills. Fearing this must be the “hush money” paid to the Watergate burglars, the president realized that news of this cash might deepen suspicions that the defendants were being bribed to keep their silence, thus triggering a new round of public inquiries.
