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John Dean: It will cost money. It is dangerous. People around
here are not pros at this sort of thing. This is
the sort of thing Maa people can do: washing
money, getting clean money and things like that.
We just don’t know about those things, because
we are not criminals and not used to dealing in
that business.
Richard Nixon: That’s right.
Dean: It’s a tough thing to know how to do.
Nixon: Maybe it takes a gang to do that.
Excerpt from President Richard Nixon’s White House
tapes, April 21, 1973
White House Counsel John Dean had a couple of things right
in his assessment of money laundering. It does cost money
to do the job right,