Nixon at 100: “I Am Not a Crook”

Part 2 of Swampland's 5 part series this week highlighting Richard Nixon's most memorable moments. The 37th President of the United States, Nixon would have been 100 on January 9.

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As part of Swampland’s week-long homage to Richard Nixon’s centennial, here’s the moment from November 1973 when Nixon defended his record in the Watergate case by declaring, “I am not a crook.”  Nixon engaged in an hour-long question and answer session on prime-time before 400 Associated Press managing editors at their conference in Orlando. You know the rest of the story.   Courtesy of ABC:

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