(7. August)- CIA and military Joint Chiefs infiltrated the White House and spied on Nixon, the late former president‘s longtime confidant Roger Stone writes
– The agencies wanted room to run in Vietnam but Nixon turned dovish and began a troop withdrawal after his stunning White House victory in 1968
– Two separate plans were drawn up to kill him
– One, quickly dismissed, was a plot to fire a missile at Nixon‘s vacation compound in Key Biscayne, Florida
– The other involved a staged gunfight at an anti-Vietnam War convention where Nixon was to speak, with an assassin shooting him in the chaos
– The CIA obtained a gun and hired an assassin, but he refused to proceed when he found out who his target was