Editing G. Gordon Liddy (section)

==Early Life and Education==
George Gordon Battle Liddy, known as G. Gordon Liddy, was born on November 30, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, to Sylvester James Liddy, a lawyer, and Maria Abbaticchio Liddy, a homemaker. Raised in a Catholic, Irish-Italian family in Hoboken, New Jersey, Liddy grew up in a disciplined household emphasizing patriotism and resilience. His uncle, Raymond Abbaticchio, a prominent attorney, inspired his legal ambitions. As a child, Liddy was frail, suffering from asthma and a nervous disposition, which he overcame through self-imposed challenges, like staring into the sun or eating rats, to build mental toughness, as recounted in his memoir Will (1980).

Liddy attended St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, graduating in 1948. He enrolled at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1952. Inspired by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the film The FBI Story, Liddy pursued law, graduating from Fordham University School of Law in 1957 with a Juris Doctor. During college, he served in the U.S. Army (1952–1954) as an artillery officer during the Korean War era, stationed in the U.S. without combat. His early fascination with strongman figures like Adolf Hitler, admired for oratory, later gave way to a rejection of Nazism.