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Re:Surgeon general: No 'value' to locking people up over mar... by zrth on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:40PM (#27888532)
Last time when this quote was posted on HN, consens turned out to be that its is quite unclear if it was ever say. I remember this as i really wanted to belief that the story was was true but ended up thinking it rather no true.. Unlike in the article you linked to, last time the conclusion was that the source recalled overhearing Nixon two decades ago, and thus was deemed quite unreliable at best - Anyone know more than me about this?
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Re:Surgeon general: No 'value' to locking people up over mar... by peytn on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:37AM (#27890715)
It’s obviously a made-up posthumous quote. Nobody who cared about their image (as John Ehrlichman clearly did) was using “blacks” instead of Jesse Jackson’s “African Americans” while talking to journalists in 1994.
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