Nixon8217;s press paranoia

WASHINGTON, MARCH 20: Former President Richard Nixon was so paranoid about newsleaks that he once ordered one of his aides to 8220;implement a theft8221; at the liberal Washington think-tank Brookings which, he believed, was holding some papers that could potentially show him in bad light.

All this and more is revealed by 168,000 pages of Nixon papers released by the National Archives on Wednesday.

In yet another incident, one of the White House memos expressed its anger over media which was critical of Nixon. It said 8220;The New York Times is finished8221; at the White House. It complained that a wire service reporter, Peter Arnett, 8220;has been bad for eight years8221;.