Object Details
- associated person
- Nixon, Richard
- referenced
- Fielding, Lewis J.
- associated
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Description
- During his first term, President Richard Nixon authorized the establishment of a special-operations unit that came to be known as the Plumbers. On September 3, 1971, a three-man Plumbers unit broke into the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. They were looking for damaging information against Ellsberg, a military analyst who had leaked to the press the Pentagon papers, a top-secret Department of Defense study of US involvement in Vietnam. This file cabinet was damaged by a crowbar used in the Plumbers’ search. This event was the first in a series of break-ins including two at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel that eventually led to Nixon's resignation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1971-09-03
- ID Number
- 1998.0268.01
- accession number
- 1998.0268
- catalog number
- 1998.0268.01
- 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
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- Watergate Breakin
- Record ID
- nmah_1198985
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-83a9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
