Word: segretti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY of late twentieth-century America is written--when archaeologists puzzle over decayed bottles of liquid protein, battered fragments of C.B. radios and faded copies of Jonathan Livingston Seagull; when scholars struggle to tell the difference between Donald Segretti and Jeb Stuart Magruder or between Dan Rather and Steve Garvey; when some future generation finally understands what Billy Beer meant to us--only then will People magazine take its rightful place as the true American chronicle. For better or worse, People is us (not to be confused with Us), the weekly national synthesis of our culture...
There is no evidence that the President's men 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...