Milestones

DIED

G. Gordon Liddy

Watergate planner

ONE COULD ARGUE THAT G. Gordon Liddy, who died March 30 at 90, was always ruthless. According to an oft-repeated anecdote from his childhood, he once ate a rat dragged in by his sister’s cat “to demonstrate to myself my lack of fear.” Thirty years later, while serving in Richard Nixon’s Administration, the lawyer was a member of the White House “Plumbers,” a secret unit tasked with doing whatever it took to stop