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4 November 1973

Riggs, Quentin, fl. 1973

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Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Quentin Riggs to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated November 4, 1973. Riggs supports the impeachment of President Nixon. Mentions Nixon's bombing of Cambodia, "I have been shocked by his illegal bombings of Cambodia, his "plumbers" who burglarized and spied upon his political opponents, his illegal wiretaps to spy on his political opponents and newspaper reporters, the watergate scandal, his withholding of evidence in a criminal case, his obstruction of justice by firing Archibald Cox, a supposedly independent prosecutor, and his many other offenses."

GLC09613.02.0704

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