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Their wordsThe result is approximately 3,400 hours of audio files that provide the most comprehensive, behind-the-scenes documentation of an American presidency that there has ever been, or ever will be.
Their wordsOn the contrary, rather than reaffirming the old narrative, now half a century old, that there was something uniquely wicked about Richard Nixon's administration, they make the listener suspect that most of what went on in Nixon's Oval Office was probably not very different from what has gone on, before and since, when other presidents sat in the same place.
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