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As a follow up, here's Nixon's former counsel John Dean (a critic of Trump's):

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4750581-supreme...

> I think that Nixon would have survived. I think he would have walked under this ruling




He's revised his opinion, and is stunned. He concurs with my original assessment:

> Virtually all of his Watergate-related conduct and virtually all that evidence falls in what could easily be described as official conduct.

> “I’m not even sure you could get to the Nixon tapes under this ruling,” Dean speculated. “What its implications are with the existing Supreme Court ruling, in U.S. v. Nixon, is a question I haven’t unraveled yet.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/richard-nixon-had-pass-john-20323...




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