When Kissinger handed William Watts the task of coordinating the White House effort, he refused. “When I came to work for you, my sense of loyalty was first to the American people, secondly to you and finally to Richard Nixon. I’m against this action on every count and I’m resigning.”46 Six months earlier, Watts discovered his wife and daughter on a picket line protesting the war; now he was free to join them. Kissinger was disgusted. “Your views represent the cowardice of the Eastern establishment,” he observed. To Alexander Haig this was insubordination. “You’ve just had an order from your
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