Claim
Claim 129
White House Counsel John Dean's August 16, 1971 memo described how the Nixon administration could use the machinery of the federal government against people it considered political enemies.
- Statement
- White House Counsel John Dean's August 16, 1971 memo described how the Nixon administration could use the machinery of the federal government against people it considered political enemies.
- Field
- stated_justification
- Value
- Dean memo purpose
- Source
- Nixon's Enemies List (original page no longer resolves; no archived copy is available)
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Library, A Southern View of Watergate exhibit
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-22
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
Quotation from the source
how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies