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to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Phil Simpson
date: 2004-01-03 13:57:30
subject: watergate

On Aug 07 2003  Roy J. Tellason wrote to Todd Sullivan:

 RJT> Todd Sullivan wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 TS> In a message of 31 Jul 03 Roy J. Tellason wrote to all:

 RJT> I just got done watching a PBS documentary on Watergate...

 TS> I watched part of that.  Talk about fascinating and scary.

 RJT> It blows me away just a little bit that this stuff all happened
 RJT> _THIRTY YEARS AGO_!

 TS> Yep.  I was 13 when it all went down.

 RJT> Yikes!  :-)

 RJT> Closing comments were interesting,  including the one by John Dean:
 RJT> "I guess the lesson of Watergate is,  don't get caught."
 RJT> Right...

 TS> That applies to anything illegal; the question of right or wrong is
 TS> irrelevent. 

 RJT> I guess that says something,  Dean being a lawyer and all.

 TS> That applies to anything the government decides isn't in line with 
 TS> what it collectively wants, not just Nixon and Co.

 RJT> Yeah.

 TS> Shoot, /we/ could be considered subversive by wanting our gov't to
 TS> do what _we_ want, not what Congress wants.

 RJT> Doesn't it say something somewhere about that in those founding
 RJT> documents? 

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Have a nice day!
                  Phil

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