UCLA History: Watergate

H.R. Haldeman, future Watergate conspirator, and – in this 1964 photo – future UCLA Alumni Association President, holds a check related to fundraising for Pauley Pavillion. The semi-official recent coffee table book history of UCLA – “UCLA: The First Century” – has very little else about Haldeman and nothing about John Erlichman, another Watergate conspirator and alum. Indeed, UCLA seems to have been a farm team for Watergate’s major league in a less boosterish article that was highlighted in LAObserved today:

See the article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk//commentisfree/2012/jun/17/richard-nixon-watergate-conspirators-40-anniversary.  [Title: “How a dead dog came back to bite Richard Nixon’s Watergate conspirators: Nixon operatives Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman pioneered their dirty tricks on the UCLA campus – baiting reds like me.”  The article is by a former managing editor of the Daily Bruin and gives a rather different view of UCLA student life in the 1950s than found in the semi-official history.]