Richard Nixon actually said...

But let us well understand, too, that the system, the system in which we protect the rights of the innocent, in which the guilty man receives a fair trial and gets the best possible defense, that system must be preserved.

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Remarks to Newsmen in Denver, Colorado

08/02/1970

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