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Published December 1, 2008, 8:34 am, Crosswalk.com

For those of you who remember Watergate, John Dean, the President’s counsel, famously warned President Nixon about Watergate, describing it as, quote, “a cancer on the Presidency.� That is a pretty good phrase to describe our economic mess.

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