Obsession that bugged Nixon

NEW YORK - Lyndon Johnson was so obsessed with secretly taping people that he even bugged the White House bed although he insisted…

NEW YORK - Lyndon Johnson was so obsessed with secretly taping people that he even bugged the White House bed although he insisted that John F Kennedy started the practice, according to Richard Nixon. In Nixon Off The Record by Monica Crowley, Nixon is quoted as saying LBJ also bugged Nixon's campaign plane in 1968 and that of his running mate, Spiro Agnew.

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