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"Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel."
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"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."
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