Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy dies at age 90

FILE PHOTO: Radio show host G. Gordon Liddy arrives for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2007. Picture taken April 21, 2007. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

(Reuters) -G. Gordon Liddy, a brash former FBI agent who helped orchestrate the 1972 Watergate break-in, a crime that began the unraveling of Richard Nixon's presidency, died on Tuesday at the age of 90.

Liddy, who parlayed his Watergate infamy into a 20-year career as a conservative talk-radio host, died surrounded by family at the home of his daughter in Mount Vernon, Virginia, his son, Thomas P. Liddy, told Reuters by telephone.