Nixon Asked Watergate Prosecutors To Please Think Of The Children | Talking Points Memo

Richard Nixon suggested that federal prosecutors investigating his actions surrounding Watergate should look “into the activities of some of the Democratic Senators and others, including some Republicans who are taking this sanctimonious attitude about the cleanliness of their campaigns.” If they did that — and “put them to the same test you have put us” — they’d “find that we have come out rather well.”


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