You and the hildabeest sound a lot like richard nixon...
Nixon: I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.
Clinton: I think it's kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about.
Nixon: I want the public to learn the truth about Watergate and those guilty of any illegal actions brought to justice.
Clinton: I want it all out there.
Nixon: The facts will prove that the president is telling the truth.
Clinton: That does not change the facts, and no matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn.
Nixon: We have waived executive privilege on all individuals within the administration. It has been the greatest waiver of executive privilege in the whole history of this nation.
Clinton: I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public.
Nixon: I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate operation.
Clinton: I don't know how it works digitally at all.
Nixon: No one on the White House Staff, at the time (White House Counsel John Dean) conducted the investigation … was involved or had knowledge of the Watergate matter.
Clinton: I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.
Kenneth E. Phillipps: So what? Colin Powell did the same thing.
Nixon: This kind of capability not only existed during the Johnson administration, it also existed in the Kennedy administration.
Clinton: Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing. ... I mean, Secretary Powell has admitted he did exactly the same thing. ... We both did the same thing.
Nixon: As far as the tapes are concerned, rather than being in defiance of the law, I am in compliance with the law.
Clinton: What I did was legally permitted, number one, first and foremost.
Nixon: The first operation, begun in 1969, was a program of wiretaps. All were legal, under the authorities then existing.
Clinton: The laws and regulations in effect when I was secretary of State allowed me to use my email for work. That is undisputed.
Nixon: We have cooperated completely.
Clinton: We're fully cooperating with [the investigation].
Nixon: Let me explain very carefully that the principle of confidentiality either exists or it does not exist.
Clinton: Look, my personal e-mails are my personal business. Right?
Nixon: I have spent many hours of my own time personally reviewing these materials and personally deciding questions of relevancy.
Clinton: Under the law that decision is made by the official. I was the official. I made those decisions.
Nixon: How (the 18 1/2 minute gap on one tape) was caused is still a mystery to me and, I think, to many of the experts as well.
Clinton: Like with a cloth or something?
Nixon: We are standing firm on the proposition that we will not agree to the Senate committee's desire to have (the tapes).
Clinton: The server will remain private.
Nixon: The easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign. But that would be a cowardly thing to do.
Clinton: I think there are disputes going on among agencies about what shoulda coulda woulda been done four, five, six years ago. That's something for them to work out.
Nixon: The Watergate issue has taken on overtones of a partisan political contest.
Clinton: So for the past eight years, Republicans and their allies have attacked President Obama with everything they’ve got. … But the real target isn’t me; it’s everything you and I believe in. … It’s not about emails or servers either. It’s about politics.
Nixon: I am confident that in those months ahead, the American people will come to realize that I have not violated the trust that they placed in me when they elected me as President of the United States.
Clinton: Now, with respect to any sort of future issues, look, I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters.
Nixon: This office is a sacred trust and I am determined to be worthy of that trust.
Clinton: People should and do trust me.
Nixon: I frankly wish we hadn't had a (taping) system at all, then I wouldn't have to answer this question.
Clinton: Looking back, it would've been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts. I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously, it hasn't worked out that way.
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