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to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09613.02.3649.08 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: circa 1973-1974 Pagination: 1 p. ; 33.5 x 9.7 cm. Order a Copy

One newspaper clipping sent by Margaret Hart to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated circa 1973-1974. The article discusses the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 under which "government prosecutors have granted varying degrees of immunity to self-confessed felons." Handwritten note by Hart states that, "one of these felons could be president if we don't stand up to Nixon."

Moorhead, Carlos J., 1922-2011
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Hart, Margaret, fl. 1974
1945 to the Present
Watergate
Impeachment
President
The Seventies

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