On This Day: Richard Nixon: ‘I Am Not A Crook’ … from Crooks & Liars John Amato

Some presidential remarks live on forever.

This is one Richard Nixon wishes for a do-over.

On November 17th, 1973, utter this phrase.

In the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, that he is “not a crook.”

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