“At most, there were three persons who went higher than John Mitchell: John Ehrlichman (maybe), Haldeman and Richard M. Nixon. Basic strategy that goes all the way to the top. The phrase unnerved Bernstein. For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker.
People at the paper would occasionally kid them that they were out to get the President. What if they really had to confront such a situation—not getting the President, but obtaining persuasive evidence that he was involved?”
All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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