On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:41:50 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> Gordon Fitch wrote:
> >
> > when they ignored the vast
> > demonstrations against the war? I don't.
> >
>
> Not true. Haldeman's diaries reveal that in fact they obsessed over
> the
> demonstrations -- probably in fact took the demonstrations more
> seriously than we (the demonstrators) took them.
The White House tapes showed that Nixon and his people were obsessed to the point of paranoia. The infamous Plumbers Unit was originally created to spy upon and disrupt the antiwar movement. Only subsequently, was it used against the Democrats (hence Watergate).
>It was this concern
> with the anti-war effort that triggered the events leading up to
> Watergate.
>
> Carrol
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