file cabinet
Object Details
- Description
- During the Nixon administration, a secret-operations unit known as the Plumbers was established. On September 3, 1971, a three-man Plumbs unit broke into the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. They were looking for damaging information against Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon papers concerning the Vietnam War to the press. This file cabinet was damaged by a crowbar used in the search. This event was the first in a series of Plumbers' break-ins that included the famous escapade at the Watergate Hotel that eventually brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated date
- 1971-09-03
- ID Number
- 1998.0268.01
- accession number
- 1998.0268
- catalog number
- 1998.0268.01
- associated person
- Nixon, Richard
- referenced
- Fielding, Lewis J.
- associated
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Object Name
- File Cabinet
- file cabinet, Daniel Ellsberg
- Physical Description
- grey (overall color)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 52 in x 15 1/2 in x 26 1/2 in; 132.08 cm x 39.37 cm x 67.31 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- related event
- Watergate Breakin
- Record ID
- nmah_1198985
- Usage
- CC0
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