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To: SvenMagnussen

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.
Elliot Richardson


16 posted on 04/09/2012 1:28:59 PM PDT by King Hawk
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To: King Hawk
Who wouldn't want to see this in the Obama Administration?

Watergate resignations and convictions:

one presidential resignation

one vice-presidential resignation

40 government officials indicted or jailed

H.R. Haldeman & John Erlichman (White House staff) resigned 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

John Dean (White House legal counsel) sacked 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

John Mitchell, Attorney-General and Chairman of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) jailed

Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy (ex-White House staff), planned the Watergate break-in, both jailed

Charles Colson, special counsel to the President jailed

James McCord (Security Director of CREEP) jailed


18 posted on 04/09/2012 2:21:39 PM PDT by SvenMagnussen (What would MacGyver do?)
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