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Cancer on the Presidency

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1973

John Dean21 March 1973

White House · Politics / Watergate

Warns Nixon that the Watergate cover-up has become a cancer on the presidency and describes growing demands for money and possible clemency.

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John Dean

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