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Richard Nixon: “This principle of confidentiality of Presidential conversations is at stake in the question of these tapes.”

On the recordAugust 14, 1973
This principle of confidentiality of Presidential conversations is at stake in the question of these tapes.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Nation About the Watergate Investigations.

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