Master List Of Nixon's Political Opponents

It was an expansion of the original Nixon's Enemies List of 20 key people considered opponents of President Richard Nixon. In total, the expanded list contained 220 people or organizations.

The master list was compiled in mid-1971 in Charles Colson's office and sent in memorandum form to John Dean. On June 27, 1973, Dean provided to the Senate Watergate Committee this updated "master list" of political opponents. The original list had multiple sections, including a section for "Black Congressmen".

The purpose of the list was to "use the available Federal machinery to screw [their] political enemies." One such scheme involved using the Internal Revenue Service to harass people on the list.

Response

Carol Channing stated that inclusion on the list was her greatest accomplishment. Talk show host and journalist Lou Gordon, who was also on the list, considered his inclusion to be a "badge of honor". Tony Randall was similarly proud, according to Jack Klugman in his memoir on Randall.^{[citation needed]}

In The Great Shark Hunt (1979), Hunter S. Thompson expressed disappointment in not having been included on the list, writing "I would almost have preferred a vindictive tax audit to that kind of crippling exclusion."

Carl Djerassi's 1992 autobiography The Pill, Pigmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse stated that President Nixon awarded him the National Medal of Science when he was on the Enemies List. Djerassi attributed his inclusion to his opposition to the Vietnam War.

Entries

Senators

Howard Baker (R-TN)
Birch Bayh (D-IN)
Sam Ervin (D-NC)
William Fulbright (D-AR)
Fred R. Harris (D-OK)
Harold Hughes (D-IA)
Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
George McGovern (D-SD)
Walter Mondale (D-MN)
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)
William Proxmire (D-WI)

Members of the House of Representatives

Black Congressmen and Congresswomen

Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)
Bill Clay (D-MO)
George Collins (D-IL)
John Conyers (D-MI)
Ronald Dellums (D-CA)
Charles Diggs (D-MI)
Augustus Hawkins (D-CA)
Ralph Metcalfe (D-IL)
Robert Nix (D-PA)
Parren Mitchell (D-MD)
Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Louis Stokes (D-OH)

Other politicians

John Lindsay, mayor of New York City (D-NY)
Eugene McCarthy, former U.S. senator (D-MN)
George Wallace, governor of Alabama (D-AL)

Organizations

Black Panthers, Huey Newton [sic]
Brookings Institution, Lesley Gelb [sic] and others
Business Executives Move for VN Peace. Henry E. Niles, national chairman. Vincent McGee, executive director
Committee for an Effective Congress. Russell Hemenway
Common Cause, John Gardner, Morton Halperin, Charles Goodell, Walter Hickel
Congressional Black Caucus
COPE (AFL–CIO Committee on Political Education), Alexander E Barkan
Council for a Livable World, Bernard T. Feld, pr idem: professor of physics. MIT
Farmers Union, NFO
Institute of Policy study Richard Barnet, Marcus Raskin
National Economic Council, Inc.
National Education Association, Sam M. Lambert president
National Student Association, Charles Palmer president
National Welfare Rights Organization, George Wiley
Potomac Associates, William Watts
SANE, Sanford Gottlieb
Southern Christian Leadership, Ralph Abernathy;
Third National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace, Robert V Roosa, chairman
Businessmen's Educational Fund
Weather Underground

Labor

Karl Feller president, International Union United Brewery. Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers, Cincinnati
Harold J. Gibbons, international vice president, Teamsters
A. F. Grospiron, president, Oil, Chemical Atomic Workers International Union, Denver
Matthew Guinan, president, Transport Work. Union of America, New York City
Paul Jennings, president, International Union Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, Washington, D.C.
Herman D. Kenin, vice president, AFL–CIO. D
Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer. AFL–CIO (we must deal with him)
Frederick O'Neal. president. Actors and Artists America, New York City
William Pollock, president, Textile Workers Union of America, New York City
Jacob Potofsky, general president, Amalgam. Clothing Workers of America, New York City
Leonard Woodcock, president, United Auto Workers, Detroit
Jerry Wurf, international president, American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employ Washington, D.C.
Nathaniel Goldfinger, AFL–CIO
I. W. Abel, Steelworkers

Media

Jack Anderson, columnist, "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
Jim Bishop, author, columnist, King Features Syndicate
Thomas Braden, columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
D.J.R. Bruckner, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Marquis Childs, chief Washington correspondent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
James Deakin, White House correspondent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
James Doyle, Washington Star
Richard Dudman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jules Duscha [sic], Washingtonian
William Eaton, Chicago Daily News
Rowland Evans Jr., syndicated columnist, Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Saul Friedmann, Knight Newspapers, syndicated columnist
Clayton Fritchey, syndicated columnist Washington correspondent. Harper's Magazine
George Frazier, The Boston Globe
Lou Gordon, The Detroit News columnist and television talk show host
Katharine Graham, editor and publisher, The Washington Post
Pete Hamill, New York Post
Michael Harrington, author and journal member, executive committee of the Socialist Party of America
Sydney J. Harris, columnist, drama critic and writer of "Strictly Personal", Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Robert Healy, The Boston Globe
William Hines, Jr., journalist. science education, Chicago Sun-Times
Stanley Karnow, foreign correspondent, The Washington Post
Ted Knap, syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
Erwin Knoll, The Progressive
Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun-Times
Joseph Kraft, columnist, Publishers-Hall Syndicate
James Laird, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Max Lerner, syndicated columnist, New York Post: author, lecturer, professor (Brandeis University)
Stanley Levey, E.W. Scripps Company
Flora Lewis syndicated columnist on economics
Stuart Loory, Los Angeles Times
Mary McGrory, syndicated columnist
Frank Mankiewicz, syndicated columnist, Los Angeles Times
James Millstone, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Martin Nolan, The Boston Globe
Ed Guthman, Los Angeles Times
Thomas O'Neill, The Baltimore Sun
John Pierson, The Wall Street Journal
William Prochnau, The Seattle Times
James Reston, The New York Times
Carl Rowan, columnist, Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Warren Unna, The Washington Post, National Educational Television
Harriet Van Horne, columnist, New York Post
Milton Viorst, reporter, author, writer
James Wechsler, New York Post
Tom Wicker, The New York Times
Garry Wills, syndicated columnist, author of Nixon Agonistes
The New York Times
The Washington Post
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Robert Manning, editor, The Atlantic Monthly
John Osborne, The New Republic
Richard Rovere, The New Yorker
Robert Sherrill, The Nation
Paul Samuelson, Newsweek
Julian Goodman, chief executive officer, NBC
John Macy, Jr, president, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, former Civil Service Commission
Marvin Kalb, CBS
Daniel Schorr, CBS
Lem Tucker, NBC
Sander Vanocur, NBC

Celebrities

Carol Channing, actress
Bill Cosby, comedian
Jane Fonda, actress and political activist
June Foray, voice actress
Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights and peace activist.
Gene Hackman, actor
Eartha Kitt, actress and singer
Burt Lancaster, actor
Steve McQueen, actor
Joe Namath, former New York Jets Quarterback, erroneously listed as the New York Giants QB
Paul Newman, actor
Gregory Peck, actor
Tony Randall, actor
Barbra Streisand, actress, singer, director, producer, writer, philanthropist, political advocate
Tom Smothers, folk singer and comedian

Business people

Charles B. Beneson, president, Beneson Realty Co.
Nelson Bengston, president, Bengston & Co.
Holmes Brown, vice president, public relations, Continental Can Co.
Benjamin Buttenweiser, limited partner, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Lawrence G. Chait, chairman Lawrence G. Chait & Co., Inc.
Ernest R. Chanes, president, Consolidated Water Conditioning Co.
Maxwell Dane, chairman, executive committee, Doyle, Dane & Bernbach, Inc.
Charles H. Dyson, chairman, the Dyson-Kissner Corp.
Norman Eisner, president, Lincoln Graphic Arts.
Charles B. Finch, vice president, Alleghany Power System, Inc.
Frank Heineman, president, Men's Wear International.
George Hillman, president, Ellery Products Manufacturing Co.
Bertram Lichtenstein, president, Delton Ltd.
William Manealoff, president, Concord Steel Corp.
Gerald McKee, president, McKee, Berger, Mansueto.
Paul Milstein, president, Circle Industries Corp.
Stewart R. Mott, Stewart R. Mott, Associates.
Lawrence S. Phillips, president, Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.
David Rose, chairman, Rose Associates.
Julian Roth senior partner, Emery Roth & Sons.
William Ruder, president, Ruder & Finn, Inc.
Si Scharer, president, Scharer Associates, Inc.
Alfred P. Slaner, president, Kayser-Roth Corp.
Roger Sonnabend, chairman, Sonesta International Hotels.

Business additions

Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities
Morton Sweig, president, National Cleaning Contractors
Alan V. Tishman, executive vice president, Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.
Ira D. Wallach, president, Gottesman & Co., Inc.
George Weissman, president, Philip Morris Corp.
Ralph Weller, president, Otis Elevator Company

Business

Clifford Alexander, Jr., member, Equal Opportunity Commission; LBJ's special assistant
Hugh Calkins, Cleveland lawyer, member, Harvard Corp
Ramsey Clark, partner, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; former attorney general
Lloyd Cutler, lawyer, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.
Henry L. Kimelman, chief fund raiser for McGovern. president, Overview Group
Raymond Lapin, former president, FNMA; corporation executive
Hans F. Loeser, chairman, Boston Lawyers' Vietnam Committee
Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank; former Secretary of Defense
Hans Morgenthau, a pioneer in the field of international relations theory
Victor Palmieri, lawyer, business consultant, real estate executive, Los Angeles
Arnold Picker, Muskie's chief fund raiser; mayor of Golden Beach, Florida; executive vice president of United Artists; enemy number one on Nixon's Enemies List
Robert S. Pirie, Harold Hughes' chief fund raiser: Boston lawyer
Joseph Rosenfield, Harold Hughes' money man; retired Des Moines lawyer
Henry Rowen, president, Rand Corp., former assistant director of budget (LBJ)
R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., former US. ambassador to France; lawyer, Strasser, Spiefelberg, Fried, Frank & Kempelman, Washington, D.C.; 1972 Democratic Party Vice Presidential candidate; former director of the Peace Corps
Theodore Sorensen, lawyer, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York
Ray Stark, Broadway producer
Howard Stein, president and director, Dreyfus Corporation
Milton Semer, chairman, Muskie Election Committee; lawyer, Semer and Jacobsen
George H. Talbot, president, Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.; headed anti-Vietnam ad
Arthur Taylor, vice president, International Paper Company
Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association
Paul Warnke, Muskie financial supporter, former assistant secretary of defense
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Muskie financial supporter; chairman, IBM

Academics

Michael Ellis DeBakey, chairman, department of surgery, Baylor College of Medicine; surgeon-in-chief, Ben Taub General Hospital, Texas
Derek Curtis Bok, dean, Harvard Law School
Kingman Brewster, Jr., president, Yale University
McGeorge Bundy, president, Ford Foundation
Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry, and co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive pill, Stanford University
Daniel Ellsberg, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
George Drennen Fischer, member, executive committee, National Education Association
J. Kenneth Galbraith, professor of economics, Harvard University
Patricia Harris, educator, lawyer, former U.S. ambassador; chairman welfare committee, Urban League
Walter Heller, regents professor of economics, University of Minnesota
Edwin Land, inventor of instant photography
Herbert Ley, Jr., former FDA commissioner; professor of epidemiology, Harvard University
Matthew Stanley Meselson, professor of biology, Harvard University
Lloyd N. Morrisett, professor and associate director, education program, University of California
Joseph Rhodes, Jr., fellow, Harvard University; member, Scranton commission on Campus Unrest
Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist; director, A. Philip Randolph Institute, New York
David Selden, president, American Federation of Teachers
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of humanities, City University of New York
Jeremy Stone, director, Federation of American Scientists
Jerome Wiesner, president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samuel M. Lambert, president, National Education Association