¶ Politicians
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Politicians:
(In response to newspaper account: “McGovern wonders why the Public is so Apathetic about the Watergate?”)
“Society has always assumed that politics is crooked. So if you just get experts to say this is so, why nobody is surprised. They just find it a little more sophisticated crookedness. Where the McGoverns and the Humphreys-- and even Adlai to some extent-- go wrong is when they try to appear as pure saints when they are politicians too. You couldn’t be a politician and not have some important compromise in your background. You may not have done anything personally wrong. But you may have temporized. You may have put up with. You may have kept quiet. You may have looked the other way…”
