I guess. WaPo thinks it was pretty significant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/08/dorothy-hunt-united-crash-watergate/ https://www.washingtonp

I guess. WaPo thinks it was pretty significant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/08/dorothy-hunt-united-crash-watergate/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/08/dorothy-hu... > What’s clear, though, is the influence the crash had on the arc of the Watergate scandal. It was a crucial turning point. Howard Hunt, worried his children would be orphans if he spent years in prison, asked his lawyer to meet with Colson and request a pardon from Nixon after a year of incarceration if Hunt would plead guilty and avoid trial. > Colson spoke with Nixon, as recorded in White House tapes. Nixon agreed to the clemency proposal. > Four other Watergate defendants, Cuban Americans from Miami whom Howard Hunt had brought to the burglary operation, took this as a cue that they’d be pardoned, too, and also pleaded guilty.