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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Jules Witcover
Who would have thought after all these years that the Republicans would turn to Richard Nixon for political advantage?
That's what
In the poisonous political atmosphere of the Watergate affair, minimized then by the Republicans as a "third-rate burglary" of the
He had underlings draw up an "enemies list" that included about 60 reporters and commentators to be cold-shouldered by his administration or worse, including what turned out to be some retaliatory audits by the
As a reporter covering Nixon in those days, I was disappointed not to have been honored by inclusion on the list that came to public light. Nevertheless, when I wrote a somewhat critical book about Nixon's political resurrection in 1968, I was audited for the first time, for reasons the
One of my best sources for the book in the Nixon administration, based in Europe, got a call from the
The incident came back to mind the other day in the context of the latest
Rogers said the
In doing so, Rogers was taking a giant leap from that regional office into the
Other leading congressional Republicans -- most notably
On
Without putting too fine a point on the promise, Issa's semi-certitude seems to echo the late Sen. Joe McCarthy's assurance that he had papers proving there were 205 communists in the President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
The revelation of the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups came, notably, from the head of the screening office within the
In any event, to equate the tea party and other right-leaning organizations singled out by the
What will be next from these hunters for deep Oval Office conspiracy? Will there be more cries for impeachment, to rescue a
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