Editing G. Gordon Liddy (section)

== Prosecutor and politician ==
[[File:G. Gordon Liddy c 1964.jpg|thumb|right|Liddy circa 1964]]
Liddy resigned from the FBI in 1962 and worked under his father as a [[patent attorney]] in New York City until 1966. He was then hired by District Attorney Raymond Baratta as a prosecutor in [[exurban]] [[Dutchess County, New York]], after providing references from the FBI.<ref name=epstein1>{{cite book |last=Epstein |first=Edward Jay |title=Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America |url=https://archive.org/details/agencyoffearopia0000epst |url-access=registration |date=November 17, 1990 |publisher=Verso |isbn=9780860915294}}</ref> In 1966, he led a drug raid on the [[Hitchcock Estate]] (then occupied by [[Timothy Leary]]) in [[Millbrook, New York]], leading to an unsuccessful trial. Although the case generated much publicity, other lawyers complained that Liddy received credit for something in which he played a relatively small role.<ref name=epstein1/><ref name=LukasHoff1999 /> He was also reprimanded for firing a revolver at the ceiling in a courtroom.<ref name=LukasHoff1999 /><ref name="perlstein">{{Cite book |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |author-link=Rick Perlstein |year=2008 |title=Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America |title-link=Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-4302-5 |page=583}}</ref> In 1969, a drug raid directed by Liddy at [[Bard College]] scooped up, among others, [[Donald Fagen]] and [[Walter Becker]], who later formed the band [[Steely Dan]] and wrote the song "[[My Old School (song)|My Old School]]" about the raid. Liddy is referred to in the lyrics as "Daddy Gee".<ref>{{cite web |last=Mason |first=Stewart |title=My Old School - Steely Dan - Song Info |url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/my-old-school-mt0003450675 |website=AllMusic |language=en-US |access-date=September 5, 2017 |quote="My Old School" is the pair's most overt song about their alma mater, a sarcastically chipper-sounding remembrance of the time Becker and Fagen, along with several dozen other students, found themselves caught up in a trumped-up drug raid during an election cycle. |archive-date=February 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206091327/https://www.allmusic.com/song/my-old-school-mt0003450675 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During that period, Liddy ran unsuccessfully for the post of District Attorney. In 1968, he continued to seek office by running in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]'s primary election for [[New York's 28th congressional district]]. Employing the slogan "Gordon Liddy doesn't bail them out; he puts them in", he lost to [[Hamilton Fish IV]] in a close race.<ref name=playboy /> Liddy then accepted the nomination of the [[Conservative Party of New York State]] and ran in the general election against Fish and the Democratic candidate, Millbrook businessman John S. Dyson. Fearing that Liddy might tip the election to Dyson, Fish turned to the district's Republican leader, State Assemblyman Kenneth L. Wilson, to get Liddy out of the race. Wilson's office dispatched the matter to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington, resulting in Liddy being offered a potential [[Richard Nixon]] administration political appointment at the [[United States Department of the Treasury]]; this prompted him to officially suspend his campaign. While Liddy's name remained on the ballot (garnering almost five percent of the vote),{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} it was not enough to forestall Fish's election.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

After serving as county director of Nixon's successful [[Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign|presidential campaign]], he began the aforementioned political role as a special assistant for [[narcotics]] and [[gun control]] at the Treasury Department's Washington, D.C. headquarters in early 1969. Shortly thereafter, he helped to establish the country's contemporary [[Federal Air Marshal Service|sky marshal program]] under the aegis of the [[United States Marshals Service]].<ref name="NYT obit"/>

Beginning in 1970, he served with [[Gordon C. Strachan|Gordon Strachan]] and [[David Young (Watergate)|David Young]] as an aide to [[United States Domestic Policy Council|Domestic Affairs Advisor]] [[John D. Ehrlichman]] in the [[Executive Office of the President]] at the behest of [[Egil "Bud" Krogh]], who had worked on initiatives with Liddy at the Treasury Department. He served as the nominal general counsel to the finance committee of the [[Committee to Re-elect the President]] (CRP) from 1971 to 1972.<ref name="Purcell2010">{{cite book|last=Hoff|first=Joan|editor=L. Edward Purcell|title=Richard Milhous Nixon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zq3-BuDVQfMC&pg=PA342|volume=Vice presidents: A Biographical Dictionary|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3071-2|page=357}}</ref> Subsequently, Krogh, Liddy, Young, and Erlichman were indicted for conspiracy to commit burglary in September 1973.<ref name=DeanJW>{{cite book |last=Dean |first=John W. |year=2014 |title=The Nixon Defense |page=[https://archive.org/details/nixondefensewhat0000dean/page/ xxix,638] |publisher=Viking |isbn=978-0-670-02536-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/nixondefensewhat0000dean/page/}}</ref>