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TIL that Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted by the Nixon administration for assassination in 1972. The plot was foiled when the assassination plotters, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were arrested for the Watergate break-in.

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