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Just as he loved secrecy, Nixon hated leaks to the press (though he himself was a dedicated leaker to favored reporters). And so when he first ordered an unannounced air raid against communist bases in Cambodia in April 1969, he was furious to read about it in a Washington dispatch in the New York Times. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover told the President that the only way to find the leaker was to start tapping phones. When Nixon entered the White House and dismantled the elaborate taping system that Johnson had installed, Hoover told him that the FBI, on Johnson...
...also vividly recalls when he was beaten at the end of the protest by several police officers in the raid...
Between 250 and 300 people were arrested in the raid, and nearly 75 students were injured...
...hour before the raid, more policemen from local suburban forces gathered behind Memorial Hall. There were officers and paddy wagons from Cambridge, Boston, Newton, Somerville, Arlington, Watertown and the Metropolitan District Commission...
...antidrug raid gone awry leads to the death of a clergyman...