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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878445 Whereby I say in response to someone questioning the source of that
by mikestew 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878445
Whereby I say in response to someone questioning the source of that quote: "That's the best you're going to find, some journalist's reminiscence twenty-some years after the fact. So I would caution anyone to be wary of whipping that quote out to make a point."
Until I hear of a better source (and I won't), I am putting this quote in the "urban legend" bucket. All that's missing is an attribution to Mark Twain.
- iaHN 6y agoIs this journalist untrustworthy?
- mikestew 6y agoIs your memory of something someone said twenty-some years ago trustworthy? That quote might have come from a journalist, but it isn't journalism.
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- exolymph 6y agoAnyone's recollection after decades is untrustworthy. Memory is simply not very reliable.
- tanseydavid 6y agoHaving the ability to observe the effect of one's lie on a nation-wide basis over the years, might result in having that memory sharpened and refined rather than dulled.
- mikestew 6y agoThe one who needs to demonstrate a sharp memory (journalist) and the one who lied (Erlichmann) are not the same people.
- wmeredith 6y agoThis quote was questioned and outright called a fabrication or misinterpretation by three other Nixon aides who worked alongside John Ehrlichman. Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-nixon-drug-war-john-ehrlichman_n_56f58be6e4b0a3721819ec61?j4cvxkk6gn39b2o6r https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-nixon-drug-war-john-e...
- gurleen_s 6y agoI don’t know that I trust this quote, but I also wouldn’t trust people complicit in these actions to disprove it either...