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And the way that the history of it has been remembered since then is that that 1973 olc memo was written specifically with the richard nixon watergate problem in mind and it was a definitive look at whether a president can be indicted, and even in the context of watergate they believed that nixon -- really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be, yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and, again, he was there when it was written, in the course of expressing the view that a vice president could be indicted, whi...

Precise point is not conclusive. and yet he ultimately puts in at the end that even though you can't really make heads or tails of what the framers of the constitution intended, quote, during the president century, the duties of the president -- if he had to defend a criminal prosecution. so this is where it all comes from. this was the original document, the full reasoning from the olc in this opinion about indicting the president is that there is nothing in the constitution about it. we don't know what the framers intended about it at all, but the job of being president has become so hard no...