Nixon Testified for Felt in 1980

My favorite of the many sidebar stories going around.

Nixon, then a private citizen, testified that he believed that at the time the FBI director and his deputies had direct authorization from the president to order break-ins in the interest of national security.

Much of Nixon’s testimony focused on his efforts to end the Vietnam War while his administration was confronted with violent antiwar activism. “It was quite different than what it is today,” Nixon testified. At one point, a woman seated among the spectators cried out, “War criminal!”