“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.”

—  Bill Clinton

Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center in Storrs, Connecticut http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50654&st=tyranny&st1=destruction, October 15, 1995
1990s

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