SEQUELS: Not Even Earplugs Could Help

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As Frost probed Nixon's motives in striking out at his critics, the former President anticipated the questions. "Am I paranoiac about hating people and trying to do them in?" he asked. "The answer is: At times, yes. I get angry at people ... but an individual must never let hatred rule him." His bitterness showed when he described Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the secret Pentagon papers, as "the punk." It also showed toward the Kennedys as he related how Jack and Jackie had never once invited him and Pat to the White House for a meal, even though he had previously been Vice President. He compared the bugging of Martin Luther King's hotel rooms under Attorney General Robert Kennedy to his wiretapping of Government officials and newsmen. But he conceded: "Two wrongs do not make a right, they make two wrongs."