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Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Liddy tells a good story for a standing-room-only courthouse crowd

"It was easy for me to play the villain, because that way I didn't have to act."

Washington Post. G. Gordon Liddy, in testimony related to the three-decades-old Watergate scandal, hams it up before a courtroom microphone, recounting how he starred in television shows like MacGuyver and Miami Vice, and tells tales. "He told jurors that he refused to testify about Watergate until after the statute of limitations ran out because his father 'didn't raise a rat or a snitch.'"'

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