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President Nixon's assistant for domestic affairs, John Ehrlichman, testifies about a memo, addressed to him, with detailed plans to burglarize the office of the psychiatrist of "Pentagon Papers" defendant Daniel Ellsberg. On September 9, 1971, the White House "Plumbers unit," named for their orders to plug news leaks in the administration, broke into Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office to steal evidence of the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg was a former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
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