Word: haldemans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haldeman: Colson's gonna... do it with the Teamsters...
...Haldeman: Sure. Murderers ... It's the regular strikebusters types ... They're gonna beat the [expletive deleted] out of some of these people. And, uh, and hope they really hurt 'em. You know ... smash some noses...
...sickeningly familiar, from the macho posturing to the crude, scatological stammering. But this time the conversation between President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, so drearily reminiscent of those played during the Watergate conspiracy trial of 1974, was from a newly disclosed tape. The recording, of a five-minute conversation between Nixon and Haldeman, was made on the White House taping system in May 1971. The subject: a plan to bring in what Haldeman called Teamster "thugs" to intimidate demonstrators then descending by the thousands on Washington to protest the Viet Nam War. The transcript...
...actually conscripted Teamsters to bloody the heads of demonstrators. But the tape confirms for the first time that Nixon knew about the political sabotage campaign conducted by White House Henchman Donald Segretti 18 months before the hotly contested 1972 election, a charge Nixon has repeatedly denied. As Haldeman tells his boss: "This kind of guy can really get out and tear things up." Segretti was imprisoned in 1973 for conspiracy and distributing false campaign material...
...Duke does indeed turn Nixon down, we propose that Harvard offer to take his papers. Nixon probably wouldn't go for it; he is after all, the man who once told H.R. Haldeman, regarding prospective cabinet appointments, "No goddamn Harvard men, you understand? Under no condition!" But perhaps Nixon will let bygones be bygones and start addressing the boxes for Cambridge. Harvard could do its part by promising to clear some room for Nixon in Houghton Library--perhaps near Leon Trotsky's papers. But even if Nixon chooses to look elsewhere, Harvard could, by asking for the papers, display some...