Nixon could formulate no coherent strategic plan for the general election until he knew which Democratic Party he might be running against. Hopefully, he would soon have the intelligence he needed. The same team that had broken into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s shrink had established a beachhead at the Howard Johnson’s across from DNC chair O’Brien’s office at the Watergate complex, ready to effectuate the revised CRYSTAL phase of Gordon Liddy’s Operation GEMSTONE.
