CBS News | The FBI's Eye On Young John Kerry | March 23, 2004 09:59:26: "Nixon: Apparently, this fellow, uh, that they put in the front row, is that what you say, the front [unintelligible] the real stars.

Haldeman: Kerry. He is, he did a hell of a great job on the, uh --

Nixon: He was extremely effective.

Haldeman concludes: I think you’ll find Kerry running for political office.

In another conversation, Nixon referred to Kerry’s group of anti-war veterans as 'bastards.'

As a vocal critic of Nixon, Kerry was on the White House radar, especially after his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.

'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?' Kerry testified. 'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?'
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