“We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that's growing.”
Said to Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal (Tape of March 21, 1973).
John Wesley Dean III é um ex-advogado americano que serviu como conselheiro da Casa Branca para o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Richard Nixon, de julho de 1970 a abril de 1973. Wikipedia
“We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that's growing.”
Said to Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal (Tape of March 21, 1973).
[Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, 2004, Dean, John, ISBN 0641735421, Little, Brown & Company]
Memorandum from Dean to Lawrence Higby dated August 16, 1971, regarding the purpose of Nixon's Enemies List
“Eternal vigilance. Remember, no one said democracy would be easy.”
Fonte: Authoritarian Nightmare (2020), p. 282