file cabinet
date: label: associated date
content: 1971-09-03
name: label: associated person
content: Nixon, Richard
label: referenced
content: Fielding, Lewis J.
label: associated
content: Ellsberg, Daniel
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
topic: label: related event
content: Watergate Breakin
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
label: Exhibition
content: American Presidency
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs Elizabeth Fielding
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0268.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0268
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0268.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: File Cabinet
label: Object Name
content: file cabinet, Daniel Ellsberg
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: grey (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 in x 15 1/2 in x 26 1/2 in; 132.08 cm x 39.37 cm x 67.31 cm