“I want the break-in,” Nixon continued. “Hell, they do that. You’re to break into the place, rifle the files, and bring them in.… Just go in and take it. Go in around eight or nine o’clock,” he said, beginning to stray into actually planning the operation himself. “Clean it up. These kids don’t understand. They have no understanding of politics. They have no understanding of public relations. John Mitchell is that way. John is always worried about is it technically correct? Do you think, for Christ sakes, that the New York Times is worried about all the legal niceties? Those sons of bitches
...more
