The Nation: Creating a New Who's Who

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It certainly does. On balance, the lists revealed not only paranoia but ludicrous judgment. As S. Sterling Munro Jr., chief aide to Senator Henry M. Jackson, put it: "Where do they get these clowns, anyway? They have absolutely no political judgment at all. My only problem now is that all my colleagues on the Senate staffs are envious."

One of the Administration's more bemused "enemies" was Sam M. Lambert, former executive secretary of the National Education Association, who voted for Nixon in 1968 and considered himself a presidential supporter.

"Heaven help all of us," he said last week, "if this is the slipshod way they do their intelligence work." One example: the listing of Thomas O'Neill of the Baltimore Sun, who died in April 1971—at least three months before the lists were compiled.