Was He or Wasn't He?

The NYT On This Day page lets us know that on this date in 1973 (wow, that's a long time ago now!) the following was in the news....

On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that ``people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.''
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