Editing Clark MacGregor (section)

===Nixon White House===
MacGregor was Assistant to [[Richard Nixon]] for congressional relations in 1970, Counsel to the President on congressional relations (1971–1972), Chairman of the [[Committee to Re-elect the President]] (July to November 1972) following [[John N. Mitchell|John Mitchell]]'s resignation from the position in the [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] political scandal. In October 1972, as the reporting of [[Bob Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein]] began to piece together the extent of the spying and sabotage program of the Nixon campaign, MacGregor in a press conference attacked ''[[The Washington Post]]'' for allegedly "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources, and huge scare headlines ... maliciously ... to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate -- a charge the ''Post'' knows -- and a half dozen investigations have found -- to be false."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perlstein|first=Rick|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180755987|title=Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America|date=2008|isbn=978-0-7432-4302-5|edition=1st Scribner hardcover|location=New York|pages=729–730|oclc=180755987}}</ref>