Thursday, December 26, 2024

Poor Charlie's Almanac

"There, an aggressive subordinate made an extreme proposal for advancing Republican interests through the use of some combination of whores and a gigantic yacht. When this ridiculous request was rejected, the subordinate backed off, in gracious concession to merely asking for consent to a burglary, and the attorney general went along. [Robert] Cialdini believes that subconscious reciprocation tendency thus became one important cause of the resignation of a United States president in the Watergate debacle, and so do I." - Charlie Munger Poor Charlie's Almanac

Never heard this explanation of the cause of Watergate before. 

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:21 PM

    Interesting. I wonder if that's the reason for the commotion on X over immigration visas or if something is expected if/once that's rejected.

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