[babaloo]

It doesn't look like he is a staff writer from the end of the article. This was in the paper's news section-not the columnists' section.

[blue_nova]

just pure spec on my part, but given the very late discharge
date i would suspect that his military record details his anti war activities with dates, times, places, and names. IMHO it would be very ironic if Nixon's preoccupation with with DNC dirty tricks turned out to be justified based on activities that JF'nK was part of.