“I think the lesson is, the people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself — even foreign affairs any more than domestic affairs without the help of Congress. I was stuck in fact by president Johnson's reaction to These revelations as close to treason. Because it reflected to me the sense that what was damaging to the reputation of a particular administration, a particular individual, was, in itself, a treason, which is very close to saying, “I am the State .” “The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to full full its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.”
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