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The_Commonist

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3. I doubt it.

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2014, 01:49 PM

Aug 2014

I'm sure he said something to Mitchell, et al, about "getting some dirt on that bastard" (McGovern), and Mitchell probably passed that on to Magruder, and then the cowboys took it from there. They wanted to please the "ultimate boss" and then the boss didn't want to cross Hunt and the rest of the assassination crowd. So again, I doubt that Nixon ordered it, but I have no doubt that he gleefully covered it up. That was his nature.

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