Watergate Lap Quilt
name: label: referenced
content: Nixon, Richard M.
notes: label: Description
content: This crazy quilt was made by Lois Ljungren in response to the Watergate hearings. She started it in 1972 and completed it in 2016. A multicolored crazy quilt embellished with beads, ribbon, buttons, lace, and embroidery, it has embroidered squares reflecting some of the significant individuals involved. These include President Richard Nixon, Senators Sam Ervin, Howard Baker, Herman Talmadge, Daniel Inouye, Joseph Monyoya, Edward Gurney, and Lowell Weicker. There are also squares embroidered for the Watergate conspirators Dwight Chapin, Charles Colson, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, Howard Hunt, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, Herbert Kalmbach, Donald Segretti, Fred LaRue, Gordon Liddy, Jeb Magruder, Egil Krogh, and Bart Porter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Quilting
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0268.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0268
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0268.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 92.5 cm x 93 in; 36 13/32 in x 236.22 cm