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Re: Nixon (OT)

Posted by Charles Hansen on March 7, 2007 at 09:20:38:
<< Please be good enough to cite your source for the quote you reference. Iâ€™m unaware of any such tape or admission by Nixon. >>
You are correct, I was mixed up. Nixon didn't allegedly say "it would be wrong" to break into the DNC headquarters. He allegedly said "it would be wrong" to pay hush money to the burglars.
From Time Magazine, March 11, 1974:
<< Haldeman agreed that Dean told the President that E. Howard Hunt, one of the arrested Watergate burglars, was demanding $120,000 in cash, "or else he would tell about the seamy things he had done for Ehrlichman," presumably as one of the White House squad of secret investigators, "the plumbers." According to Haldeman, Nixon asked how much money.would have to be raised over the years to meet such demands, and Dean replied, "probably a million dollarsâ€”but the problem is that it is hard to raise."
The President replied, according to Haldeman, "There is no problem in raising a million dollars, we can do that." Up to this critical point, Haldeman and Dean were still in agreement. Then, Haldeman testified, Nixon added five crucial words: "But it would be wrong." >>
I was going from my memories of the time, nearly 35 years ago when I was still a teen-ager. I erroneously conflated two separate events.
As to your assertion that "Watergate would be but a minor footnote", I disagree. Still one of our worst presidents ever, so Watergate could have been "but a minor footnote" only in comparison to his other abuses of power.