There’s huge tension between the idea that Nixon was responsible for Watergate and: > the President “revealed something more acute: a fear of Hoover’s skill at

There’s huge tension between the idea that Nixon was responsible for Watergate and: > the President “revealed something more acute: a fear of Hoover’s skill at wielding power, and a sense that even the President was no match for the F.B.I. director.” Nixon told his aides, “We may have on our hands here a man who will pull down the temple with him, including me.