“You don't want to know.”

— Richard Nixon

Responding to Senator Howard Baker who asked him the question: "What do you know about the Kennedy assassination?" Quoted in Oral History Interview with Don Hewitt (8 October 2002)
2000s

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37th President of the United States of America 1913–1994

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