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Peter Kenyon Investigates The Excuses Used By Politicians

NPR
Published February 13, 1997 at 11:00 PM CST

when they're accused of wrongdoing. It's a defense that most of us learn as children... the "everyone else is doing it" line. And it seems that the more it's used in politics, the more disenchanted the public becomes.

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