Talk:Master list of Nixon's political opponents

When?

When was the list compiled? Why? The article's just "HeresAList!".

Linking those listed to this article

I would like help in editing the articles on all the individuals listed here to reference their presence on the master list. CynicalMe 19:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Mainly, it's celebrities and politicans that need the reference. Most of the other categories required writing articles, so I added the link as I wrote those. I usually added a line like "her political views and actions landed her on the master list of Nixon political opponents." Jokestress 02:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The article says that Steve McQueen was on the Nixon enemies list; yet the McQueen page says that this is not true, just a rumour. What is right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.52.174 (talk) 15:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Steve McQueen is listed in the June 28, 1973 NY Times article on page 38. One could claim that this is an "opponents list," not the original "enemies list" approved by Charles Colson. Haldemann said as much in the Congressional hearings (www.archive.org/details/statementofinfor08unit). Most people on the various lists want the bragging rights of being on THE Enemies List. Mr. McQueen may feel differently. Danaxtell (talk) 08:18, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Palmer

The President of the National Student Association was Charles F. Palmer, not Palm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.12.116.7 (talk • contribs)

moved to talk page. Jokestress 20:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Warhol

A biography of artist Andy Warhol claims he was on Nixon's enemies list. It furthermore claimed that his presence on the list insured that his federal taxes were audited every year between 1968 until his death. Maybe some of the source material should be checked for this. L. Greg 17:56, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you cite the specific biography so we can confirm? Jokestress 18:07, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Why Joe Namath?

I dont understand was Broadway Joe Namath on this list. --Blue387 05:05, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

"His extravagant bachelor lifestyle" [1] and "his corrupting lifestyle" [2]. J. Edgar Hoover kept a file on him, too. Jokestress 06:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Black Congress Men

Is it really appropriot to have a section of Black Congress men? There are already two other categories for Sentators, and Representatives. This category seems racist, and NPOV.(Lucas(CA) 19:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC))

The list is presented exactly as compiled by Nixon aides. The separation of Black Congressmembers was in the original. Jokestress 19:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

A link to the actual list -- or offering a citation to a publication where the list is presented in its full, verbaitim form, is needed here. Otherwise, we're basically just taking the word of whoever wrote this article that the list as it is is accurate. The paltry citation offered at the end of the article isn't even in proper form and gives me no idea where I should find it. Staff report? Whose staff??!? -- 64.72.137.241 (talk) 22:46, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

The citation you partially removed has the full list with "Black Congressmen" split out. Jokestress (talk) 02:26, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

John Lennon and others

Lennon has been among those added a couple of times, but Lennon was not on any published versions of Nixon's lists. Sure, Nixon disliked his politics, and Hoover was out to nail him, but we have to stick with reliable sources from published versions. If you have a book or other source that states Lennon was on Nixon's enemies list, we can discuss that. Jokestress 23:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

If one Googles "John Lennon Nixon enemies list" (w/o quote marks), there are certainly a lot of pages that come up claiming he was. I've no clue if any of them are reliable, but it's a start. --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 21:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

What about JFK,RFk and LBJ?

Time to prevent additions?

I just removed a person from the "Master List of Political Opponents". She'd been there at least 6 months. You can see my note in 'history'. Since this list now jives with the newspaper accounts, maybe it's time to prevent new names from being added. It's probably quite tempting to some types.

I also corrected several OCR (optical character recognition) errors in names. I suspect that the list was originally lifted from the OCR copy from Facts on File listed under External Links. The print versions in the NY Times and Washington Post on June 28, 1973 have none of these errors. The most humorous is Harriet Van HOME instead of Harriet Van HORNE. The OCR error has been spread so far that the non-existent Harriet Van Home even has a Wikipedia entry.

While the newspaper list is more authoritative that whatever was used before, it would still be delightful to get a PDF of the original June 27, 1973 Congressional testimony as a source. The "Original List" of 20 (complete with Charles Colson's 10 checkmarks) and the "Second Enemies List" of McGovern staffers and supporters is included in the Congressional IRS hearings at www.archive.org/details/statementofinfor08unit. But, the "Master List of Political Opponents" is not included in that record. It must be somewhere in the Congressional Record. Danaxtell (talk) 08:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Someone's missing:

Isn't someone named Barney Gumble supposed to be in this?121.1.55.86 (talk)