Nixon Enemies List entry for
Edwin Otto Guthman:
| List and position: | First/Top 20, #3 with Charles Colson's blue checkmark |
| Name as originally listed: | Ed Guthman |
| Vitals: | 8/11/1919 - 8/31/2008 |
| Comment on original list: | managing editor, L.A. Times |
| Lists with duplicates of this person: | 1 |
| Gleanings: | |
- National editor for the Los Angeles Times, 1965-1977. - Listed both in the Top 20 and under "Media." - Press secretary for Robert F. Kennedy, 1961-1965. - Awarded Pulitzer Prize in 1950 while at the Seattle Times. - Decorated WW II combat veteran. - Profiled by Tom Brokaw in "The Greatest Generation." - His Seattle Times obituary notes that his "association with the Kennedys also helped land him on President Nixon's infamous 'enemies list.'" - His LA Times obituary's first sentence says that his "aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories during the 1970s earned him the enmity of President Nixon and the No. 3 spot on Nixon's infamous enemies list." - His NY Times obituary noted that he was "named by the Nixon White House on a so-called enemies list, where he was described as 'a highly sophisticated hatchet man against us in ’68.'" | |
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