mission. “The scheme… relied on Nixon’s cherished powers; not only was it a clever move, it was a power move—the kind Nixon preferred,” journalist Tom Wicker observed later. Whatever else had transpired until that moment—from the Chennault Affair to the Huston Plan to the Fielding burglary to the Brookings plan—a new Rubicon had been crossed and a fatal wound for the administration now created, left to fester.VI
