Nixon: Blow Up the Foreign Service

It's amazing that more than 30 years after Watergate, we're still learning more about the depths of Richard Nixon's hatred for career federal employees. AP reports today that newly released documents show that Nixon had nothing but contempt for career State Department officers. Shortly after his reelection in 1972, Nixon questioned the loyalty of diplomats to his policies and told National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger that his legacy would be to "ruin the Foreign Service. I mean ruin it -- the old Foreign Service -- and to build a new one. I'm going to do it."