An absorbing discussion of Richard Nixon and his predecessors specifically, and politics and morality generally. WFB: "The columnist Garry Wills has written that Mr. White has his own 'enemies list' and that he specifies with whom he will and will not appear to discuss his book. ..." THW: "I do solemnly affirm that I have no enemies list. There are people I dislike and people I disagree with. I have no enemies list. I am not out to get anybody. There is and was a Nixon's enemies list. The most frightening thing--if you asked me what brought about the impeachment of the President--was that cold chill that ran down the spine of the Judiciary Committee on those critical words in the September 15 transcript. Mind you, this is before the election; it's 1972. He's talking to John Dean, Richard Nixon is, and he says he wanted Dean to tell the fellows at CREEP [the Committee to Re-Elect the President] that this is war and to behave themselves like war. And then he says, 'Make a list.' He said, 'We haven't used the power this first four years.' He said, 'We haven't used the Bureau, we haven't used the Department of Justice; but now we're going to use them all.' That's frightening language to come from a President about to win the greatest landslide in American history." (But cf. Henry Kissinger, Firing Line #S1202.)
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