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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses… The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. – Archibald Cox

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I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. – Archibald Cox

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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one – absolutely no one – is above the law. – Leon Jaworski

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When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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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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