The berserk was breaking out on every side. Sometimes it was hard to tell the sides. The Plumbers and their patron harbored no such doubts. The left were the aggressors. Everyone else was just playing defense. The aggressors worked, for instance, by defiling religion. The president endured a receiving line at a White House dinner honoring voluntarism; “Typical of the group,” he complained to Haldeman, “was a fellow who came through the line from California who said he was a Quaker. He was an obvious, roaring fag.” The aggressors poisoned the airwaves. When the president flipped through the
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