The master list was compiled in mid-1971[1] in Charles Colson's office and sent in memorandum form to John Dean.
On June 27, 1973,[1] Dean provided to the Senate Watergate Committee this updated "master list" of political opponents.
Talk show host and journalist Lou Gordon, who was also on the list, considered his inclusion to be a "badge of honor".
[8] In The Great Shark Hunt (1979), Hunter S. Thompson expressed disappointment in not having been included on the list, writing "I would almost have preferred a vindictive tax audit to that kind of crippling exclusion.
"[9] Carl Djerassi's 1992 autobiography The Pill, Pigmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse stated that President Nixon awarded him the National Medal of Science when he was on the Enemies List.