A propos of our times: On May 11 1973 Nixon learned that a judge in LA had dismissed charges vs my father. The White House tapes record his reaction: “They’re trying to get at us with thieves. What in the name of God have we come to?”
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My father comments: “What we had come back to was a democratic republic—not an elected monarchy—a government under law, with Congress, the courts and the press functioning to curtail executive abuses as our Constitution envisioned.”
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Thank you to your father for his courage, goodness, and patriotism. And thank you for helping him to make photocopies.
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