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Richard Nixon: Looking inward

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The Kennedy Pictures, the Sanitization of the Staff Offices, Credibly Bizarre.

Nixon ordered butterfield to get rid of Kennedy pictures and place them with nixon. Butterfield wrote a memmo to nixon about how he got nixon's pictures to replace the 22 kennedy pictures that he found, in some cases where the president had personally signed it to them. So it's an example of that, for nixon, like an example, even early in his presidency, of that paranoia and his desire for control.

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