If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than t…

Richard M. Nixon
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If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie. ✨ Richard M. Nixon's remarks to John Dean (April 1973) as quoted in Nixon Tapes Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, 1974.
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