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Yankee Pyramids

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The Honor System

There was like this new custom were your presidents would voluntarily put their papers in the library. But it was basically like the honor system, like they didn't have to give everything up. Can you guess which president really detested that honor system? Any guess i think i cani think i can get it in oneis we're talking about richard millhouse nixon here. Ya. The nixon arrow was kind of he battle royal over who gets to control the papers of the president. You know, nixon had proceeded, as everyone before him had done, as if all the records created by his office during his presidency were his private property and he could do with them he wished.

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