“When the commander in chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal in order for them to do that.”

Response to the Frost-Nixon interviews on the Watergate scandal, UPI (21 May 1977)
1970s

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