“We have the power but are we using it? To investigate contributors to Hubert Humphrey, contributors to Muskie, the Jews, you know, that are stealing everybody…” He trailed off. “You know, they really tried to crucify Ho Lewis”—Hobart Lewis, Reader’s Digest’s president and executive editor, who had been audited. “Are we looking into Muskie’s return?…Hubert? Hubert’s been in lots of funny deals…. Teddy? Who knows about the Kennedys? Shouldn’t they be investigated?” (Like old hens, they started gossiping about Teddy’s marriage.) The next week the president took it up with Haldeman: “Bob, please
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