U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Herschensohn helped craft a campaign to raise President Richard Nixon's image in an unsuccessful effort to keep Nixon in office during the height of the 1973 Watergate scandal, the Los Angeles Times has reported.
Herschensohn was in charge of the nationwide "Support the President Campaign," although in that capacity he was neither a high-ranking White House aide nor directly involved in the Watergate scandal.But 12,000 pages of documents in the Nixon files at the National Archives reveal his total devotion to defending Nixon at the height of one of the nation's worst political scandals, the Times said Sunday.
Herschensohn came up with various ideas and plans to boost Nixon's image. He suggested that the Watergate hearings be compared to the notorious anti-Communist McCarthy hearings in the 1950s.