Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

ISBN 0-394-45025-6. Jones was subsequently sentenced to five days in jail (with the sentencing judge recommending that the sentence be served in the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office's work program rather than actually behind bars) to 200 hours of community service and to two years of probation. " While at the Times he gathered material for his book The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era.