Jack Anderson, Columnist Whose Death Was Plotted by Nixon, dies

Torn Rose · 2005-12-17, 03:38 PM

WASHINGTON Dec 17, 2005 — Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83.

"Such scoops earned him a spot on President Nixon's "enemies list." Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy has described how he and other Nixon political operatives planned ways to silence Anderson permanently such as slipping him LSD or staging a fatal car crash but the White House nixed the idea."

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2005-12-17, 03:38 PM	#1
Torn Rose "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." ~ Mark Twain Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 4,806	Jack Anderson, Columnist Whose Death Was Plotted by Nixon, dies WASHINGTON Dec 17, 2005 — Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83. "Such scoops earned him a spot on President Nixon's "enemies list." Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy has described how he and other Nixon political operatives planned ways to silence Anderson permanently such as slipping him LSD or staging a fatal car crash but the White House nixed the idea." http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1416477