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Not to defend Nixon....
... but Hunter's opinion of Nixon sounds suspiciously like he's confessing his own character faults.He worked for Nixon. Denying illegal actions would probably be listed as a hobby on his resume.
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"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosones that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine."
-Hunter S. Thompson On Richard Millhouse Nixon