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Don't you know, you (expletive deleted) that dropping an instrument might be equivalent to murder?
- ↑ Walker, Sam (7 June 2013). ""Expletive Deleted": Nixon Releases Edited White House Watergate Tapes". Today in Civil Liberties History (April 29, 1974). Retrieved October 31, 2019.
- ↑ Brockell, Gillian (September 25, 2019). "That time Nixon released doctored transcripts during Watergate". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
- ↑ Aitken, Jonathan (1993). Nixon: A Life. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History. p. 515. ISBN 978-0-89526-489-3.
- ↑ Halstead, Dirck (1974-05-04). "Demonstrators w sign saying "IMPEACH THE (EXPLETIVE DELETED)"". Getty Images. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
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