Comment Re:The power that be has no shame ! (Score 1) 197
"My life had changed that day. For the first time I realized, and I think we all realized, that we were involved in criminal activity, that if the truth became known we could all go to jail.No one ever considered that there would NOT be a cover-upthere was no sense of embarrassment or shame as we planned the cover-upAfter the Democrats nominated Senator McGovern, we felt that we were protecting the honorable peace that the President was bringing to Vietnam and avoiding the national disaster that would follow if McGovern became President. We were not covering up a burglary, we were safeguarding world peace."
Jeb Magruder, on Watergate.
Ain't history grand? At least Magruder had the integrity to cooperate and served time for his role.