Master list of Nixon's political opponents

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The master list of Nixon's political opponents was a secret list compiled by US President Richard Nixon's Presidential Counselor Charles Colson. It was an expansion of the original Nixon's Enemies List of 20 key people considered opponents of Nixon. In total, the expanded list contained 220 people or organizations.

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The master list was compiled in mid-1971 [1] in Charles Colson's office and sent in memorandum form to John Dean. On June 27, 1973, [1] Dean provided to the Senate Watergate Committee this updated "master list" of political opponents. [2] The original list had multiple sections, including a section for "Black Congressmen". [3] [4] [5] [6]

The purpose of the list was to "use the available Federal machinery to screw [their] political enemies." [1] One such scheme involved using the Internal Revenue Service to harass people on the list. [1]

Response

Carol Channing stated that inclusion on the list was her greatest accomplishment. Talk show host and journalist Lou Gordon, who was also on the list, considered his inclusion to be a "badge of honor". [7] Tony Randall was similarly proud, according to Jack Klugman in his memoir on Randall. [8]

In The Great Shark Hunt (1979), Hunter S. Thompson expressed disappointment in not having been included on the list, writing "I would almost have preferred a vindictive tax audit to that kind of crippling exclusion." [9]

Carl Djerassi's 1992 autobiography The Pill, Pigmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse stated that President Nixon awarded him the National Medal of Science when he was on the Enemies List. Djerassi attributed his inclusion to his opposition to the Vietnam War. [10]

Entries

Senators

Members of the House of Representatives

Black Congressmen and Congresswomen [3]

Other politicians

Organizations

Labor

Media

Celebrities

Business people

Business additions

Business

Academics

Notes

  1. ↑ There is some amibiguity over whether "Lloyd N. Morrisett" refers to Lloyd N. Morrisett Sr. or Lloyd N. Morrisett Jr., though Morrisett Jr. has stated that he believed it to be referring to himself. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 David E. Rosenbaum (1973-06-28). "SCORES OF NAMES". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  2. ↑ Staff report (June 28, 1973). "Lists of White House 'Enemies' and Memorandums Relating to Those Named". New York Times . p. 38. Archived from the original on 2013-12-19.
  3. 1 2 Knappman Edward W. (1973). Watergate and the White House. Facts on File, ISBN   978-0-87196-352-9
  4. ↑ Welsing, Frances Cress (1973). Build a World Without Racism. Equity & Excellence in Education, Volume 13, Issue 1 January 1973, pages 20 – 26.
  5. ↑ Garza, Hedda (1982). The Watergate Investigation Index: Senate Select Committee Hearings and Reports on Presidential Campaign Activities. Scholarly Resources, ISBN   978-0-8420-2175-3
  6. ↑ Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution 60: Watergate and Related Activities. Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution 60: Watergate and Related Activities : Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First-[second] Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1973. p. 1689. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  7. ↑ Deborah L. Gordon on DVD / Television Show "Motor City Celebrities – Lou Gordon" (c) Copyright 2008 Dream World Enterprises All Rights Reserved. DreamworldEnterprises.net
  8. ↑ Klugman, Jack; Rocks, Burton (2005). Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship. Good Hill Press.
  9. ↑ Thompson, Hunter S. (2011). The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. Simon and Schuster, ISBN   9781451669251
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2015-01-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "June Foray". 22 October 2017.
  12. ↑ Kamp, David (2021). Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America. Simon and Schuster. p. 125. ISBN   9781501137815 . Retrieved February 19, 2023. Stranger still was the discovery that 'Lloyd N. Morrisett' was among the names on the extended version of Nixon's famous 'Enemies List'... ...Some confusion remains to this day over whether the Morrisett in question was the CTW chair or his namesake father, a distinguished professor of education at UCLA. 'My father did not like Nixon at all, so it could have been either one of us, but I think it was probably me,' said Morrisett [Jr.]. 'It's more likely that I would have been considered a political opponent, because of my connections with Carnegie, John Gardner, Lyndon Johnson, and so forth.'
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