nixon's "I'm not a crook" speech....Washington Post, Nov. 18, 1973

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sounds so much like bush* recent crap, that it bears looking at this blast-from-the-past....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A53333-2002Jun3¬Found=true

Nixon Tells Editors, 'I'm Not a Crook'

By Carroll Kilpatrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 18, 1973; Page A01

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Orlando, Fla, Nov. 17 -- Declaring that "I am not a crook," President Nixon vigorously defended his record in the Watergate case tonight and said he had never profited from his public service.

"I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice," Mr. Nixon said. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got."

In an hour-long televised question-and-answer session with 400 Associated Press managing editors, Mr. Nixon was tense and sometimes misspoke. But he maintained his innocence in the Watergate case and promised to supply more details on his personal finances and more evidence from tapes and presidential documents.


He flew here tonight from his Key Biscayne, Fla., home for the much-heralded question-and-answer period. He was well prepared, remembering dates and times when he held key meetings with various aides on Watergate matters.

He went on to say he would send to the "editors of the nation's newspapers, all 10,000 of them, the facts. I trust that you will use them . . . but if you feel you need more information, write to me and I will give it to you."

by this time-table (link)...nine months later, nixon resigned...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/chronology.htm

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1. Bu$h

um, ah, em, er: God appointed ME! and it is swallowed by the Sheeple.