There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
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I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
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