(12-30-2015 11:41 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(12-22-2015 09:53 PM)bullet Wrote:  Read a book in the 70s. Probably have around the house somewhere. It talked about all the Watergate type things that went on. LBJ had the FBI bug the 1964 Republican convention. The Republicans didn't think that much of what they did as they knew by that time that it had been done to them.

From the description, it sounds as if the book you're talking about is "It Didn't Start With Watergate", written by Victor Lasky and published in 1977. It was a major national bestseller, back in the pre-Internet, pre-cable news era when books (and book-stores) were a much bigger part of the overall political discussion than they are now.

Lasky published several anti-liberal, anti-Democrat books in his life. He gained a low-brow audience compared to (say) William F. Buckley, but his prose was virtually Shakespearean compared to the Ann Coulter, Michael Moore-types who dominate the political book industry nowadays.

"It Didn't Start With Watergate" basically compiled every negative or unflattering story ever told about FDR, JFK, and LBJ, and then presented them in contrast with the accusations against Nixon, who had just recently resigned and was still something of a political pariah at the time of publication.

No. This guy was very liberal and very much against government interference. Haven't found it yet. Repainted in the room with all my books and everything is scattered. Think it had a title similar to Woodward's book (Veil-the secret wars of the CIA)-something about the CIA and veils or hidden surveillance. Talked about J. Edgar Hoover's acts as well in the FBI.