Quotation by Anna Quindlen

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 17 (April 27, 1994).

on media coverage of the funeral of former president Richard M. Nixon.
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