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ROUND 1. In 1972, as fears of a fuel shortage became widespread for the first time, a federal interdepartmental task force, under the direction of White House Aide Peter Flanigan, started drafting a presidential energy message. Late in the year, the message reachedJohn Ehrlichman, then Nixon's chief domestic adviser, who recognized a fertile political issue and moved to put the planning under his control. Objecting to the draft's urgent tone (its writers dared to use the word crisis), Ehrlichman ordered extensive revisions...
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