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...Watergate speech was disconcertingly ambivalent. Nixon resorted to an odd and habitual rhetorical device, explaining???as he often has done in his past speeches on Viet Nam?that he was rejecting "the easiest course" and pursuing the more difficult one. In this case, "the easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign." Placing the entire blame on subordinates, however, would not have been the easier course?because it would not have washed. To avoid accepting responsibility for the actions of so many men acting in his name would have...
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