Some friends and I recently traded a few emails about how Donald Trump is cracking down on the media via the owners’ other larger business interests and government contracts. Here’s what one of the emailers had to say, harking back to the Nixon era:

 “The reaction of Attorney General John Mitchell, President Richard Nixon’s attorney general, when Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein spoke with him about a (Watergate) article the paper was about to publish: ‘Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published.’

But it didn’t work out that way. Read the link. It recounts how Nixon immediately focused on the Post’s television licenses as a way to retaliate.

“You gotta love the visuals. Wow! Even more, that the Washington Post published it. Without Graham’s express permission. And she supported both decisions.

“Bezos needs to grow a pair of tits.”

Sorry for the language, but if Katherine Graham could take it, Hub Blog and Hub Blog readers can take it.