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David Gergen: Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm sure they did. You know, after all they had a lot of access to J. Edgar Hoover's files and…

On the recordOctober 25, 2017
Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm sure they did. You know, after all they had a lot of access to J. Edgar Hoover's files and they're all sorts of details there both, you know, governmental and salacious.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen asserts that past politicians likely took secrets about JFK to their graves.

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