"So listen, the day after the election, win or lose, we've got to do something with this son of a bitch,’’ Nixon says on White House tapes released years ago but transcribed for the first time by author and journalist Mark Feldstein.

That "something" included plots to poison Washington 's premiere political columnist Jack Anderson with hallucinogens and to discredit him with allegations of homosexuality.

The book’s contents are revealed in an article by MSNBC Investigative Reporter Michael Isikoff.

"Jack Anderson was like Ahab chasing after Richard Nixon, this great white whale, and he plagued Nixon from the very beginning of his career,” Feldstein says.

Nixon became preoccupied with doing in Anderson and the book chronicles his agents conspiring with a “retired CIA poison doctor” to put LSD on Anderson’s car steering wheel “so that he would absorb it through his skin while driving and die in a hallucination-crazed auto crash,” writes Feldstein.

Forty years later, the White House is once again embroiled in a political pissing match over the release of classified documents.

In April, the whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks embarrassed the U.S. military by releasing a provocative videotape of U.S. helicopter gunners shooting down a group of Iraqi men without provocation.

Then, in late July, the group released a classified documents on the U.S. ground war in Afghanistan that revealed large Iraqi civilian casualties and duplicity among Pakistani military, according to journalists who reviewed the documents.

Since the Afghan War Diary was published, the U.S. has begun a psy-ops war against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, and some extreme conservatives are calling for Assange to be asassinated to “convince other people not to publish documents like this in the future.”

Within a month after the Afghan War Diary appeared, Swedish police arrested Assange on a charge of rape, an allegation he has vehemently denied.