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"It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved."
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"Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged."
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"One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities."
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"Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day."
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