Nixon had already ordered a wiretap on Halperin for suspected leaking, and Gelb and Halperin both now worked at the Brookings Institution, a think tank Nixon regarded as a government-in-exile for Democrats. Nixon was irked at Kissinger for having even darkened the door at Brookings. “Chrissakes, he went over and talked to Brookings people himself,” Nixon fumed. “I warned him about it. I said, ‘Henry, don’t go over there.’ You know, I said, ‘Those people—that’s the Democratic National Committee.’
