Cranezilla --Mark Crane's collection of rarely annotated links

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow "We've seen it in cases like this before, where it's demanded that presidents cough up and compromise on important principles...we are weaker today as an institution because of the unwise compromises that have been made over the last 30 to 35 years."

Translation: Nixon should never have turned over those tapes 30 years ago, and by god I'm not going to make the same mistake today.