Ah, yes! The never ending battle between the descriptive and prescriptive grammarians.

For me, I'm not so sure about the co-conspirator thing. There's a certain nuance that it has over conspirator. It implies that Nixon was conspiring with one particular group as opposed to conspiring within his own circle. But I see your point.

It's kind of like the phrase "not insigificant". That's a little different from saying "significant", although the prescriptives among us might claim that it's the same thing.

And yes, I know. I started a sentence with "but" and a paragraph with "and", and I put my punctuation outside the quotes. Anybody who has a problem with that can burn in the fires of hell for all eternity. I'm just sayin'.

Oh, yeah, and a couple of sentence fragments in the beginning. And another just now. And another. Dear God, it never ends!

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