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...from criticizing the press for its coverage of Watergate, Ford said that newsmen were "the most significant contributors" to the exposure of the scandal. Ford said he could not imagine himself making a "hard-line speech" attacking journalists, much less trying to intimidate them, as some White House staffers had done, by advocating the punitive use of antitrust laws or the Internal Revenue Service...
Magruder's contribution certainly did that (though some of the ploys, such as attempts to plant stories expressing the Administration line, are accepted public relations practice). Instead of making "shotgun" responses to news items, Magruder advocated pointing the "rifle" of Government agencies, as he put it, at newsmen's heads. He wanted the Administration to employ "the Antitrust Division [of the Justice Department] to investigate various media relating to antitrust violations." Just the "possible threat of antitrust violations," Magruder added, "would be effective in changing their views." The Internal Revenue Service also struck Magruder as a useful tool...
...East Room was like a bear pit with over 200 newsmen and women shrieking and roaring for attention, jostling each other as they leaped up and down signaling frantically for the President's attention, ignoring the previous questions and the incomplete answers to press their own divergent points...
...White House-authorized campaign to tap the telephones of certain Administration aides and outside newsmen...
Clinging to a harsh war policy in Indochina, besieged by protests at home, this mediocre crew developed an obsession with manipulating public opinion and hiding its procedures and policies. Tapping the telephones of high officials and newsmen for imagined reasons of "national security" led easily into eavesdropping for political purposes. Once the Nixon agents were arrested inside Democratic National Headquarters, the deceitful cover-up came automatically to apparatchiks who did not even trust each other. The writers leave little doubt that they believe Nixon knew all about the concealment...