"CREEP" stands for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, which was a fundraising organization for President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. CREEP became involved in the Watergate scandal when several of its members, including G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were found to be part of a group of individuals who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The burglars were attempting to wiretap phones and steal documents in order to gain an advantage in the upcoming election. The connections between CREEP and the Watergate burglars led to a series of investigations and ultimately the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
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