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Quote by Sam Ervin
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. – Sam Ervin

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We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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When youre a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. – Dick Houser

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I have impeached myself by resigning. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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