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ABC 7 Chicago website posts "re-edited" Henry Hyde quote
From alternet.org: An ABC affiliate in Chicago printed -- and then "re-edited" -- an interview with congressman Henry Hyde (R-Il) during which he was asked if the Clinton impeachment were payback for Nixon. His response, according to Judd who spied the original: "I can’t say it wasn’t, but I also thought that the Republican party should stand for something, and if we walked away from this, no matter how difficult, we could be accused of shirking our duty, our responsibility."
ABCNews7 in Chicago interviewed Henry Hyde (R-IL):
Republican Congressman Henry Hyde made some surprising comments Thursday on the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton. He now says Republicans may have gone after Clinton to retaliate for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
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Andy Shaw asked Hyde if the Clinton proceedings were payback for Nixon’s impeachment.
“I can’t say it wasn’t, but I also thought that the Republican party should stand for something, and if we walked away from this, no matter how difficult, we could be accused of shirking our duty, our responsibility,” said Hyde.
UPDATE 12:23PM: This piece is back on the website now, but without the quote in this blog post.