"Nixon had been to China. He had been……" — Thomas Mallon
"Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed."
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9 Quotes by Thomas Mallon
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Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
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