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Well, when the president does it…that means that it is not illegal. — Richard Nixon

Interview

Well, when the president does it…that means that it is not illegal.

Richard Nixon
1977
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Presidential powerExecutive powerAmerican PresidencyAmerican politics
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Interview
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1977
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Richard Nixon
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Nixon, Richard. "Nixon Interviews." Interviewed by David Frost. ABC, 19 May 1977, pt. 3.

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