Saturday, November 17, 1973
BAY LAKE, Florida -- After former special prosecutor Archibald Cox held a press conference to confirm beyond reasonable doubt that President Nixon was involved in the Watergate break-in, Nixon posted on a newfangled thing called Twitter:
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| Watergate, Watergate, Watergate! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this false scandal...
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| And now Watergate has disappeared because I had nothing to do with instructing my five plumbers to break into the Democratic National...
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| Committee's headquarters in the Watergate building in order to dig up dirt on my political opponents in order to get re-elected.
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| It was a crime that didn’t exist. So now the Democrats and their partners, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at The Washington Post,.....
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| ....say he fought back against this fictitious crime that didn’t exist, this horrendous false accusation,
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| and he shouldn’t fight back, he should just sit back and take it. Could this be obstruction?
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| No, Mr. Cox didn’t find obstruction either. Presidential harassment! I am a crook!
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Twenty minutes later, the embattled president held a press conference at Disney's Contemporary Resort to retract his stunning admission:
"No, wait, did I say I was a crook? I meant I'm not a crook. I am not a crook. I did not instruct anybody to break into DNC headquarters. Not a crook."
Nixon's Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigned Wednesday, October 10 in an unrelated scandal. The office is currently vacant. If Nixon is impeached for his role in the Watergate scandal, Speaker of the House Carl Albert will become president, unless Nixon appoints a vice president before that time.
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