Word: paranoia
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...perhaps symptomatic of the nation's gathering political paranoia that many felt a faint suspicion that Agnew was somehow being played with in the strategy of a bigger?and hidden ?power game. Some improbable "they"?the Democrats, enemies in the White House or whoever?were after...
Even the Butterfield explanation of the rationale for the President's clandestine taping?that it was purely for a historical record?was questioned by a former presidential aide, who had not been aware of the bugging. This aide insisted that it was Nixon's "paranoia about the press" that motivated his taping. Explained this official: "The President has had a bad press for a long time. He ordered the taps and bugs to keep his own record of what happened in his offices, to tell what he considered to be the true story." Yet it is not at all clear...
...Thompson's first person account -- a combination of fastpaced action, immediate detail and extended dialogue -- lends them an air of realism or at least exaggerated fact. The element of fantasy gives an excuse to succumb to the book's outrageous humor, but the underlying mood is one of paranoia and repulsion. That is namely Thompson's "fear and loathing" of a Dream that mesmerizes people so completely, as they gorge their egos with dollars, that they are blind to social responsibility...
...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...
There was extreme concern in the White House. I wouldn't characterize it as paranoia, exactly, but there was extreme concern. It was all out of proportion. It focused on two subjects: demonstrations and leaks. Every time there was a new demonstration or a new leak, the concern heightened...