Ehrlichman and Mitchell, “they’re always saying, well, we’ve got to win the court case through the court.” But Nixon scorned the slow-turning wheels of justice. “I mean, just let—convict the son of a bitch in the press. That’s the way it’s done….Nobody ever reads any of this in my biographies. Go back and read the chapter on the Hiss case in Six Crises and you’ll see how it was done. It wasn’t done waiting for the goddamn courts or the attorney general or the FBI….We have got to get going here.”
