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“When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.”

Quote by Nat Hentoff

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Nat Hentoff was an American historian known for his contributions to the fields of liberalism and the civil rights movement. Born on June 10, 1925, and passing away on January 7, 2017, Hentoff's work covered a wide range of topics, including music, literature, law, and social justice. more

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