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Nearly 40 years before the Obama White House denounced the WikiLeaks website for publishing classified documents, another president, Richard Nixon, was even more obsessed with the same phenomenon.
Only Nixon and his top aides went to far greater lengths to deal with the problem: They launched an extraordinary campaign to smear and discredit the journalist who, more than anyone else, was bedeviling them by publishing government secrets: newspaper columnist Jack Anderson.
Anderson feuded with FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s, when he exposed the scope of the Mafia, a threat that Hoover had long downplayed. Hoover's retaliation and continual harassment lasted into the 1970s. Hoover once described Anderson as "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures."
Anderson told his staff, "Let's do to Hoover what he does to others." Anderson had his people go through Hoover's garbage, which is the kind of thing FBI people used to do. Anderson's investigations were a tipping point in the attitude of the public and the press towards Hoover.
G. Gordon Liddy discusses much of it in his autobiography. Nixon really was a vindictive and paranoid SOB.
Jack Anderson, John Lennon, Paul Newman, etc
RMN accomplished something no other human being throughout time has done......he got his name engraved on a gold plaque, on the moon! ....think about that....I'm not saying that's a good thing.
RMN accomplished something no other human being throughout time has done......he got his name engraved on a gold plaque, on the moon! ....think about that....I'm not saying that's a good thing.
Knowing him, he probably thought he could evict the man in the Moon.
RMN accomplished something no other human being throughout time has done......he got his name engraved on a gold plaque, on the moon! ....think about that....I'm not saying that's a good thing.
Actually MY name is engraved on a part of the lunar module that is on the moon. Apollo 11. My dad engraved all of our names on something he worked on.
I have to tell you, it is a very cool thing to look up there and know that.
Actually MY name is engraved on a part of the lunar module that is on the moon. Apollo 11. My dad engraved all of our names on something he worked on.
I have to tell you, it is a very cool thing to look up there and know that.
Very cool indeed!!
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