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You don't want to know.

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Responding to Senator Howard Baker who asked him the question: "What do you know about the Kennedy assassination?" Quoted in Oral History Interview with Don Hewitt (8 October 2002)

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2002

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“You don't want to know.” Richard Nixon. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-C2981D3236. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/c2981d3236

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I leave you gentleman now. You will now write it; you will interpret it; that's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know.... just think how much you're going to be missing. You don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference, and I hope that what I have said today will at least make television, radio, the press recognize that they have a right and a responsibility, if they're against a candidate give him the shaft, but also recognize if they give him the shaft, put one lonely reporter on the campaign who'll report what the candidate says now and then. Thank you, gentlemen, and good day.
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14 seconds of this tape were censored for privacy reasons, likely to protect the identity of closeted individuals Nixon may have named.

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