Undesirable Quotes
1st Duke of Wellington
It it alleged that in the original quotation "warm piss" was the phrase used, but the delicacies of the times caused the biographer to clean it up.
This statement was suppressed by the Nixon family until 2007 when it and other tapes of telephone calls were finally released to the public. Nixon won the election handily and yet was very angered at his opponent. The “irresponsibility” to which Nixon referred was McGovern raising the issue of the Nixon’s handling of the Vietnam War. See {583772} for McGovern’s reaction when he heard this for the first time more than 40 years after the fact.
For many in Western Judeo Christian cultures, secrecy per se is unsavory at best. This has included secret societies and government secrets.
