Richard Nixon's original enemies list was actually quite short -- it had only 20 names on it. The existence of the list was revealed in a Senate Watergate hearing in June 1973, in which it was also revealed that the list was intended to make it easier for the administration to "use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." Methods proposed included Administration manipulation of "grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc."
The original list follows:
- Alexander E. Barkan, national director of A F.L.-C.I.O.'s committee on Political Education,
- Representative John Conyers of Michigan
- Maxwell Dane of the New York advertising firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach
- Sidney Davidoff, a former assistant to New York Mayor John V. Lindsay, later a partner at the New York law firm of Davidoff & Malito
- Representative Ronald V. Dellums of California
- S. Harrison Dogole, then the chairman of Globe Security Systems in Philadelphia
- Bernard T. Feld, president, Council for a Livable World
- Charles Dyson of Dyson Kissner-Moran Corporation in New York
- Edward Guthman, then the national news editor of The Los Angeles Times, later a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California
- Morton Halperin, a Henry Kissinger protege in the National Secunty Council, later with President Clinton's National Security Council staff
- Samuel M. Lambert, president, National Education Association
- Allard Lowenstein, Long Island, N.Y.
- Mary McGrory, then a Washington Star columnist
- Stewart Rawlings Mott, New York philanthropist
- Arnold M. Picker, United Artists Corp., N.Y.
- S. Sterling Munro Jr., aide to Senator Henry Jackson
- Paul Newman, actor
- Daniel Schorr, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington
- Howard Stein, the chairman of Dreyfus Corporation in New York
- Leonard Woodcock, then the president of United Auto Workers
This list probably seemed as insane within the White House as it later appeared outside, and it was expanded, perhaps in the hope that a longer list would look more like a study of Nixon's opposition, and less like a list that a six-year-old would scrawl of people who would not be invited to his birthday party.
The longer list was broken into sections, as indicated below (the fact that black congressmen were listed separately from white is taken from the original text). The job descriptions below were current in 1973. Any updates can be put in the enemies' individual writeups. Though the expanded list clearly got a lot more attention within the administration than the original one had, it is still pretty sloppy. Chuck Colson's office (which had maintained the list) got some names and job descriptions wrong, and listed one person who had died a couple of years earlier. I've noted these more glaring errors in (parentheses).
Political Opponents
Senators
- Birch Bayh
- J. W. Fulbright
- Fred R. Harris
- Harold Hughes
- Edward M. Kennedy
- George McGovern
- Walter Mondale
- Edmund Muskie
- Gaylord Nelson
- William Proxmire
Members of the House
- Bella Abzug
- William R. Anderson
- John Brademas
- Father Robert F. Drinan
- Robert Kastenmeier
- Wright Patman
Black congressmen
- Shirley Chisholm
- William Clay
- George Collins
- John Conyers
- Ronald Dellums
- Charles Diggs
- Augustus Hawkins
- Ralph Metcalfe
- Robert N.C. Nix
- Parren Mitchell
- Charles Rangel
- Louis Stokes
Miscellaneous politicos
- John V. Lindsay, mayor, New York City
- Eugene McCarthy, former U.S senator
- George Wallace, governor, Alabama
Organizations
- Black Panthers, Hughie (Huey) Newton
- Brookings Institution, Lesley Gelb and others
- Business Executives Move for VN Peace, Herb Niles, national chairman, Vincent McGee. executive director
- Committee for an Effective Congress. Russell Hemingwav
- Common Cause, John Gardner, Morton Halper, Charles Goodell, Walter Hickel
- COPE, Alexander E Barkan
- Council for a Livable World, Bernard T. Feld, pr idem: professor of physics. MIT
- Farmers Union, NFO
- Institute of (for) Policy study Richard Barn, Marcus Raskin
- National Economic Council, Inc
- National Education Association, Sam M. Lambe president
- National Student Association, Charles Palm president
- National Welfare Rights Organization, George Wiley
- Potomac Associates, William Watts
- SANE, Sanford Gottleib
- Southern Christian Leadership, Ralph Abernathy;
- Third National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace, Robert V Roosa, chairman
- Businessmen's Educational Fund.
Labor
- Karl Feller president, International Union United Brewery. Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers, Cincinnati
- Harold J. Gibbons, international vice preside Teamsters
- A F Grospiron, president, Oil, Chemical Atomic Workers International Union, Denver
- Matthew Guinan, president, Transport Work. Union of America, New York City
- Paul Jennings, president, International Union Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, Washington D.C.
- Herman D. Kenin, vice president, AFL-CIO. D
- Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer. AFL-CIO (we must deal with him)
- Frederick O'Neal. president. Actors and Artists America, New York City
- William Pollock, president, Textile Workers Union of America, New York City
- Jacob Potofsky general president, Amalgam. Clothing Workers of America, New York City
- Leonard Woodcock, president, United Auto Workers, Detroit
- Jerry Wurf, international president, American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employ Washington D.C.
- Nathaniel Goldfinger, AFL-CIO
- I. W. Abel, Steelworkers
Media
- Jack Anderson, columnist, "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
- Jim Bishop, author, columnist, King Features Syndicate
- Thomas Braden, columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
- D.J.R. Bruckner, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
- Marquis Childs, chief Washington correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
- James Deakin, White House correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
- James Doyle, Washington Star
- Richard Dudman, St. Louis Post Dispatch
- William Eaton, Chicago Daily News
- Rowland Evans Jr., syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
- Saul Friedmann, Knight Newspapers, syndicated columnist
- Clayton Fritchey, syndicated columnist Washington correspondent. Harpers
- George Frazier, Boston Globe
- Pete Hamill, New York Post
- Michael Harrington, author and journal member, executive committee Socialist party
- Sydney Harris, columnist, drama critic and writer of 'Strictly Personal,' syndicated Publishers Hall
- Robert Healy, Boston Globe
- William Hines, Jr., journalist. science education, Chicago Sun-Times
- Stanley Karnow, foreign correspondent, Washington Post
- Ted Knap, syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
- Edwin Knoll, Progressive
- Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun Times
- Joseph Kraft, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
- James Laird, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Max Lerner, syndicated columnist, New York Post: author, lecturer, professor (Brandeis University)
- Stanley Levey, Scripps Howard
- Flora Lewis syndicated columnist on economics
- Stuart Loory, Los Angeles Times
- Mary McGrory, syndicated columnist on New Left
- Frank Mankiewicz, syndicated columnist Los Angeles Times
- James Millstone, St. Louis Post Disptach
- Martin Nolan, Boston Globe
- Ed Guthman, Los Angeles Ttmes
- Thomas O'Neill, Baltimore Sun (died in April 1971)
- John Pierson, Wall Street Journal
- William Prochnau, Seattle Times
- James Reston, New York Times
- Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
- Warren Unna, Washington Post, NET
- Harriet Van Home, columnist, New York Post
- Milton Viorst, reporter, author, writer
- James Wechsler, New York Post
- Tom Wicker, New York Times
- Gary Wills. syndicated columnist, author of "Nixon-Agonistes"
- The New York Times
- Washington Post
- St Louis Post Dispatch
- Jules Duscha, Washingtonian
- Robert Manning, editor, Atlantic
- John Osborne, New Republic
- Richard Rovere, New Yorker
- Robert Sherrill, Nation
- Paul Samuelson, Newsweek
- Julian Goodman, chief executive officer, NBC
- John Macy, Jr., president, Public Broadcasting Corp, former Civil Service Commission
- Marvin Kalb, CBS
- Daniel Schorr, CBS
- Lem Tucker, NBC
- Sander Vanocur, NBC
Celebrities
- Carol Channing, actress
- Bill Cosby, actor
- Jane Fonda, actress
- Steve McQueen, actor
- Joe Namath, New York Giants (Jets); business; actor
- Paul Newman, actor
- Gregory Peck actor
- Tony Randall actor
- Barbra Streisand, actress
- Dick Gregory (comedian)
Businessmen
- Charles B Beneson, president, Beneson Realty Co.
- Nelson Bengston, president, Bengston & Co.
- Holmes Brown, vice president, public relations, Continental Can Co.
- Benjamin Buttenweiser, limited partner, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
- Lawrence G. Chait, chairman Lawrence G. Chait & Co., Inc.
- Ernest R. Chanes, president, Consolidated Water Conditioning Co.
- Maxwell Dane, chairman, executive committee, Doyle, Dane & Bernbach, Inc.
- Charles H. Dyson, chairman, the Dyson-Kissner Corp.
- Norman Eisner, president, Lincoln Graphic Arts.
- Charles B. Finch, vice president, Alleghany Power System, Inc.
- Frank Heineman, president, Men's Wear International.
- George Hillman, president, Ellery Products Manufacturing Co.
- Bertram Lichtenstein, president, Delton Ltd.
- William Manealoff, president, Concord Steel Corp.
- Gerald McKee, president, McKee, Berger, Mansueto.
- Paul Milstein, president, Circle Industries Corp.
- Stewart R. Mott, Stewart R. Mott, Associates.
- Lawrence S. Phillips, president, Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.
- David Rose chairman, Rose Associates.
- Julian Roth senior partner, Emery Roth & Sons.
- William Ruder, president, Ruder & Finn, Inc.
- Si Scharer, president, Scharer Associates, Inc.
- Alfred P. Slaner, president, Kayser-Roth Corp.
- Roger Sonnabend, chairman, Sonesta International Hotels.
Business Additions
- Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities
- Morton Sweig, prsident. National Cleaning Contractors
- Alan V. Tishman, executive vice president, Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.
- Ira D. Wallach, president, Gottesman & Co., Inc.
- George Weissman, president, Philip Morris Corp.
- Ralph Weller, president, Otis Elevator Company
Business
- Clifford Alexander, Jr., member, Equal Opportunity Commission; LBJ's special assistant
- Hugh Calkins, Cleveland lawyer, member, Harvard Corp
- Ramsey Clark, partner, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; former attorney general
- Lloyd Cutler, lawyer, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Washington, D.C.
- Henry L. Kimelman, chief fund raiser for McGovern. president, Overview Group
- Raymond Lapin, former president, FNMA; corporation executive
- Hans F. Loeser, chairman, Boston Lawyers' Vietnam Committee
- Robert McNamara, president, World Bank; former Secretary of Defense
- Hans Morgenthau, former US. attorney in New York City (Robert Morgenthau).
- Victor Palmieri, lawyer, business consultant, real estate executive, Los Angeles.
- Arnold Picker, Muskie's chief fund raiser; chairman executive committee, United Artists
- Robert S. Pirie, Harold Hughes' chief fund raiser: Boston lawyer.
- Joseph Rosenfield, Harold Hughes' money man; retired Des Moines lawyer.
- Henry Rowen, president, Rand Corp., former assistant director of budget (LBJ)
- R Sargent Shriver, Jr., former US. ambassador to France; lawyer, Strasser, Spiefelberg, Fried, Frank & Kempelman, Washington, D.C. (1972 Democratic vice presidential candidate)
- Theodore Sorensen, lawyer, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York.
- Ray Stark, Broadway producer.
- Howard Stein, president and director, Dreyfus Corporation.
- Milton Semer, chairman, Muskie Election Committee; lawyer, Semer and Jacobsen
- George H. Talbot, president, Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. ; headed anti-Vietnam ad
- Arthur Taylor, vice president, International Paper Company (presently CBS president)
- Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association.
- Paul Warnke, Muskie financial supporter, former assistant secretary of defense
- Thomas I. Watson, Jr., Muskie financial supporter; chairman, IBM
Academics
- Michael Ellis De Bakey, chairman, department of surgery, Baylor University; surgeon-in-chief, Ben Taub General Hospital. Texas
- Derek Curtis Bok, dean, Harvard Law School (later Harvard president)
- Kingman Brewster, Jr., president, Yale University.
- McGeorge Bundy, president, Ford Foundation.
- Avram Noam Chomsky, professor of modern languages, MIT
- Daniel Ellsberg, professor, MIT.
- George Drennen Fischer, member, executive committee. National Education Association
- J. Kenneth Galbraith, professor of economics, Harvard
- Patricia Harris, educator, lawyer, former US. ambassador; chairman welfare committee Urban League
- Walter Heller, regents professor of economics, University of Minnesota
- Edwin Land, professor of physics, MIT.
- Herbert Ley, Jr., former FDA commissioner; professor of epidemiology, Harvard.
- Matthew Stanley Meselson, professor of biology, Harvard
- Lloyd N. Morrisett, professor and associate director, education program, University of Calif
- Joseph Rhodes, Jr., fellow, Harvard; member, Scranton commission on Campus Unrest
- Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist; director, A. Philip Randolph Institute, New York.
- David Selden, president, American Federation of Teachers.
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of humanities, City University of New York
- Jeremy Stone, director, Federation of American Scienlists
- Jerome Wiesner, president, MIT.
- Samuel M. Lambert, president, National Education Association
I am proud to have met and spent time with a number of these folk, including Galbraith, Chomsky, Bok, and Ramsey Clark.
Sources:
New York Times Magazine, January 1, 1995
Facts on File, Watergate and the White House, vol. 1, pages 96-97. as it appears at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm
kudos to mat catastrophe, who pointed me to the Facts on File source.