Archives show president's paranoia

The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California has released a new set of recordings that include memos that reveal Richard Nixon was obsessed with his enemies long before Watergate.

In one memo released that he dictated to chief of staff Bob Haldeman in early 1970, the then US president says: “The more I think of it, setting up a special group for the purpose not of cheering but solely of attacking and defending is of the highest priority.”