Not that this is the first time it's been quoted, but "even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked"...
It was a Bob Dylan line that drew huge applause "live" at the time of Richard Nixon's downfall and which continues, like so much of Dylan, to be just as relevant now...
As does the more prosaic Watergate non-Dylan quotation: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
The "stand naked" line comes, of course, from "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", a gigantic song that covers far more than the frailty of presidents, and which – if any were needed – could supply justification for Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature.
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