JOHN A. FARRELL:
Yes, it's one of the things I found was that Nixon, throughout his life, was always using yellow pads and making lists, and then crossing out as he went.
So, he comes home from war in 1946, and like lots of the younger veterans, having seen the sacrifices that were made, they wanted to improve their world. They wanted to make sure those sacrifices weren't in vain. And that's where that idealism that you talked about came from.
But, young congressional candidate, there was also this dark side already. And he was running against a fellow named Jerry Voorhis in 1946. And in one of these yellow lists, as I went down ticking them off, you know, get volunteers, put ads in newspapers, and there at the bottom was the instruction, put spies in Voorhis camp.
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