What does a guy have to do to get onto Dinesh D’sur­ren­der­mon­key’s Ene­mies List?

Have I not been suf­fi­cient­ly vocal in demand­ing lib­er­ty and free­dom? Are there pol­i­cy posi­tions of his which I agree with? Sure­ly he isn’t mere­ly pick­ing a few famous peo­ple to crit­i­cize rather than real­ly putting togeth­er a com­pre­hen­sive list. When one com­piles a list like this, the impor­tant thing is to real­ly focus. Com­pare D’Souza­’s list with Nixon’s detailed account­ing of who he did­n’t like (and why):

1. Arnold M. Pick­er, Unit­ed Artists Corp., New York; Top Muskie fund rais­er. Suc­cess here could be both debil­i­tat­ing and very embar­rass­ing to the Muskie machine. If effort looks promis­ing, both Ruth and David Pick­er should be pro­grammed and then a fol­low through with Unit­ed Artists.
2. Alexan­der E. Barkan, nation­al direc­tor of A.F.L.-C.I.O.‘s Com­mit­tee on Polit­i­cal Edu­ca­tion, Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: With­out a doubt the most pow­er­ful polit­i­cal force pro­grammed against us in 1968 ($10-mil­lion, 4.6 mil­lion votes, 115 mil­lion pam­phlets, 176,000 workers—all pro­grammed by Barkan’s C.O.P.E.—so says Ted­dy White in The Mak­ing of the Pres­i­dent 1968). We can expect the same effort this time.
3. Ed Guth­man, man­ag­ing edi­tor, Los Ange­les Times nation­al edi­tor: Guth­man, for­mer Kennedy aide, was a high­ly sophis­ti­cat­ed hatch­et­man against us in ’68. It is obvi­ous he is the prime mover behind the cur­rent Key Bis­cayne effort. It is time to give him the message.
4. Maxwell Dane, Doyle, Dane and Bern­bach, New York: The top Demo­c­ra­t­ic adver­tis­ing firm — they destroyed Gold­wa­ter in ’64. They should be hit hard start­ing with Dane.
5. Charles Dyson, Dyson-Kiss­ner Cor­po­ra­tion, New York: Dyson and Lar­ry O’Brien were close busi­ness asso­ciates after ’68. Dyson has huge busi­ness hold­ings and is present­ly deeply involved in the Busi­ness­men’s Edu­ca­tion­al Fund which bankrolls a nation­al radio net­work of five-minute pro­grams, anti-Nixon in character.
6. Howard Stein, Drey­fus Cor­po­ra­tion, New York: Heav­i­est con­trib­u­tor to McCarthy in ’68. If McCarthy goes, will do the same in ’72. If not, Lind­say or McGov­ern will receive the funds.
7. Allard Lowen­stein, Long Island, New York: Guid­ing force behind the 18-year-old “Dump Nixon” vote drive.
8. Mor­ton Halperin, lead­ing exec­u­tive at Com­mon Cause: A scan­dal would be most help­ful here. (A con­sul­tant for Com­mon Cause in Feb­ru­ary-March 1971) (On staff of Brook­ings Institution)
9. Leonard Wood­cock, Unit­ed Auto Work­ers, Detroit, Michi­gan: No com­ments necessary.
10. S. Ster­ling Munro, Jr., Sen­a­tor Hen­ry M. Jack­son’s aide, Sil­ver Spring, Mary­land.: We should give him a try. Pos­i­tive results would stick a pin in Jack­son’s white hat.
11. Bernard T. Feld, pres­i­dent, Coun­cil for a Liv­able World: Heavy far left fund­ing. They will pro­gram an “all court press” against us in ’72.
12. Sid­ney David­off, New York City, Lind­say’s top per­son­al aide: a first class S.O.B., wheel­er-deal­er and sus­pect­ed bag­man. Pos­i­tive results would real­ly shake the Lind­say camp and Lind­say’s plans to cap­ture youth vote. David­off in charge.
13. John Cony­ers, con­gress­man, Detroit: Com­ing on fast. Emerg­ing as a lead­ing black anti-Nixon spokesman. Has known weak­ness for white females.
14. Samuel M. Lam­bert, pres­i­dent, Nation­al Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion: Has tak­en us on vis-a-vis fed­er­al aid to parochial schools — a ’72 issue.
15. Stew­art Rawl­ings Mott, Mott Asso­ciates New York: Noth­ing but big mon­ey for radic-lib candidates.
16. Ronald Del­lums, con­gress­man, Cal­i­for­nia: Had exten­sive EMK-Tun­ney sup­port in his elec­tion bid. Suc­cess might help in Cal­i­for­nia next year.
17. Daniel Schorr, Colum­bia Broad­cast­ing Sys­tem, Wash­ing­ton: A real media enemy.
18. S. Har­ri­son Dogole, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia: Pres­i­dent of Globe Secu­ri­ty Sys­tems — fourth largest pri­vate detec­tive agency in U.S. Heavy Humphrey con­trib­u­tor. Could pro­gram his agency against us.
19. Paul New­man, Cal­i­for­nia: Radic-lib caus­es. Heavy McCarthy involve­ment ’68. Used effec­tive­ly in nation­wide T.V. com­mer­cials. ’72 involve­ment certain.
20. Mary McGro­ry, Wash­ing­ton colum­nist: Dai­ly hate Nixon articles.

Lat­er lists includ­ed hun­dreds more, includ­ing The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, Jane Fon­da, Bill Cos­by, Steve McQueen, and Bar­bra Streisand.

But look at that first effort. Of those 20, there are only a hand­ful whose names would have been wide­ly known at the time, but Dinesh D’Souza­’s list man­ages to include no one who isn’t already famous. There’s no secret con­spir­a­cy here, just the same old tired clichés.