Trump And Nixon

No Moorings

Donald Trump’s recent actions have harkened back fifty years to another time and another president — Richard Nixon. But, Paul Krugman writes, Trump is no Nixon: The Trump-Nixon comparisons are…

In His Pocket

Robert Reich writes that both Richard Nixon and Donald Trump abused the power of the presidency. But there is one big difference between the two men: The difference between Richard…

Sometimes It Rhymes

William Ruckelshaus knows something about desperate presidents. He was Elliot Richardson’s deputy during the Saturday Night Massacre. He writes in The Washington Post: In October 1973, Nixon ordered Attorney General…

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