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William Barr’s Legal Ideas Would Have Let Richard Nixon Off the Hook, Too

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Unlike Trump, Nixon, by all accounts, actually was innocent of the activities at the heart of the underlying investigation in Watergate.

Lawrence Robbins
Lawrence Robbins
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Lawrence Robbins

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