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President Richard M. Nixon had his "Enemies List". This was a list of people that were out to prevent him from being re-elected. On the White House Tapes, Nixon and his advisors were discussing what they should do about one of these enemies, I think the enemy was Daniel Ellsberg. And Nixon said, "We could kill him." During the David Frost - Richard Nixon interviews, Nixon complained bitterly that we didn't get to listen to what he said next, presumably because it had been accidentally erased. What he claimed to have said next was, "But that would be wrong."
I like that. It's a much better quote, that way: "We could kill him, but that would be wrong."