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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...
...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...
...perhaps because cleverness is so desperately expected of them, often sound as if their hearts are not in it, as if they are merely paying tribute to the old masters. Capote once called Jacqueline Susann "a truck driver in drag." Have we come to this? During Watergate, H.R. Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, referred to Senator Daniel K. Inouye as "that little Jap." He then defended himself by saying that he "wouldn't mind being called a little American," thus replacing an insult to the Japanese with one to the intelligence...