John J. Edwards III

John J. Edwards III is a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a longtime senior editor at Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal. You can follow him at @johnjedwards3.

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What Was Richard Nixon’s ‘Enemies List’—And Who Was on It?

Among Richard Nixon’s many presidential priorities—ending the Vietnam War, thawing relations with China, expanding environmental protections—there was one initiative his team hoped to keep well under the radar: his secret “enemies list.” In an August 1971 memo, White House Counsel John Dean offered a piquant summary of the project’s goal: to “use the available federal […]

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