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vogon
@vogon

After Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968, the relationship between Brookings and the White House deteriorated; at one point Nixon's aide Charles Colson proposed a firebombing of the [Brookings Institution]. G. Gordon Liddy and the White House Plumbers actually made a plan to firebomb the headquarters and steal classified files, but it was canceled because the Nixon administration refused to pay for a fire engine as a getaway vehicle.

  • imagine getting so pissed off at the Brookings Institution that you would do breaking & entering and arson against it
  • imagine being so petty and cheap that you would ultimately fail to go through with it because you don't want to pay for a getaway car

eatthepen
@eatthepen

this is the most nixon-whitehouse story I've ever heard


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