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1. Both involved lying to Congress, the public, and a court?

Reply to Dpm12 (Original post)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 11:56 AM

Feb 2013

I don't think there's that much of a comparison, but their similarity is that the coverup ends up having more fallout than the underlying offense.

For that matter Nixon could have probably been fine if he said "This Liddy guy is a crazy person; I don't know where he got the idea for a break-in from."

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