Is Condi-mental's 'Thousands of mistakes'

[Spinzonner]

a 'Modified Limited Hangout' for the administration ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_limited_hangout

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Interesting find...

PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the--let it hang out, so to speak?

DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that--

HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.

DEAN: It's a limited hang out.

EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.

PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

Before this exchange, the discussion captures Nixon outlining to Dean the content of a report that Dean would create, laying out a misleading view of the role of the White House staff in events surrounding the Watergate burglary. In Ehrlichman's words: "And the report says, 'Nobody was involved,'". The document would then be shared with the Senate Watergate Committee investigating the affair. The report would serve the administration's goals by protecting the President, providing documentary support for his false statements should information come to light that contradicted his stated position. Further, the group discusses having information on the report leaked by those on the Committee sympathetic to the President, to put exculpatory information into the public sphere.

The phrase had an inherent appeal and evokes the Watergate era. It is also used as a shorthand for political dirty tricks, particularly those involving false documents.

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[Erika]

2. Fantastic find

W has solid historical ground for impeachment.