MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2007
Chronicle of Higher Education
A memo in
Jack Anderson's files addresses rumors about Richard Nixon being treated at a hospital for mental illness and discusses "how to get some nurses at this institution drunk and seduce them to get them to talk about Nixon being hospitalized there," says Anderson biographer
Mark Feldstein. "The methods that the reporters were using -- not the kind of thing I teach in my journalism classes -- are a fascinating window into the kind of old-school, Front Page tactics that really were not uncommon in an earlier era."
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