The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. March 31, 2021 Watergate Burglar G. Gordon Liddy, 90, Dies ------------------------------------------- The notorious Republican operative G. Gordon Liddy has died at the age of 90. Liddy spent four-and-a-half years in jail for his role in the 1972 break-in of the Democratic Party national headquarters at the Watergate complex, which led to the downfall of Richard Nixon. He also once admitted to making plans to kill the investigative journalist Jack Anderson. .