On the recordMarch 1, 1973
I don`t give a bleep what happens. I want you all to stonewall it. Let them plead the Fifth amendment. If it will save it, save the plan, that`s the whole point.
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msnbc.comRichard Nixon: “I don`t give a bleep what happens. I want you all to stonewall it. Let them plead the Fifth amendment. If it will save…”
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Nixon's strategy during the Watergate scandal to encourage his aides to invoke the Fifth Amendment to protect themselves.
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