Hugh Sloan

Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. (born November 1, 1940 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was the US Treasurer of the Committee to Re-elect the President , which funded the re-election of US President Richard Nixon in the US election campaign Year 1972 steered. This committee was the starting point of the Watergate affair , which eventually led to the resignation of Nixon. He previously worked for HR Haldeman , the White House Chief of Staff .

Sloan graduated from Princeton University with a BA (Honors) .

The reporters of the newspaper Washington Post , Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said later that, through " Deep Throat learned" that Sloan nothing about the break-ins in the Watergate Hotel knew and it was not known how the money he awarded as treasurer, was used. He resigned during the Watergate Affair and became Woodward and Bernstein's source of information . He was not exposed by the articles in the Washington Post, but was first mentioned by name in the book of the two journalists All the President's Men . In it he was described as almost the only honest man involved in the Watergate affair.

Since 1985 Sloan has been a director of Manulife Financial Corporation , a Canadian insurance company, and holds a position with the Woodbridge Foam Company of Troy , Michigan .

In the film The Untouchables by Alan J. Pakula , Sloan is played by Stephen Collins .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Washington Post: Hugh Sloan