-- On July 1, 1971, Nixon instructs Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to have someone break into the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.:
"I can't have a high-minded lawyer ... I want a son-of-a-b----. I want someone just as tough as I am. ... We're up against an enemy, a conspiracy that will use any means. We are going to use any means... . Get it done. I want it done. I want the Brookings Institution cleaned out and have it cleaned out in a way that has somebody else take the blame."
And shortly thereafter, domestic terrorist and son-of-a-bitch G. Gordon Liddy was dispatched to fire-bomb Brookings. And apparently White House counsel John Dean managed to put a stop to the plot somehow.
(Buy my book to read about my personal run-in with Mr. Liddy.)