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That is how indigent criminal defenders get paid.
Defenders cite initiatives' ability to express public frustration with government.
Defenders pointed out that Carey hadn't murdered anybody (unlike past Teamsters bosses), and rationalized his scam as a "desperate" response to the threat posed by his more corrupt opponent, James P. Hoffa.
(Today, of course, the president's defenders claim that Clinton admitted infidelity on 60 Minutes and that the fully informed voters simply didn't care.)
Nixon detractors say the desultory comments about raising money were the operative (as they used to say) part of the conversation; Nixon defenders (of which I, as director of the Nixon library, of course am one) stress that the president said it would be wrong and that (if memory serves) "the White House can't do it."