Richard Nixon, according to a transcript of a White House tape recording that was made public during the 1974 impeachment hearings, strongly suggested that it was Kissinger who urged the wiretapping.

Former President Richard Nixon first said "The professors are the enemy" during a 1972 conversation with his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. Vance quoted Nixon's words during a 2021 speech ...

Nixon ignored the counsel of his closest adviser, Henry Kissinger, who wanted to allow ... seemed unhealthily obsessed with Jews — as the White House tapes released subsequent to Nixon’s ...