Watergate

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/11/19
  

  When It Comes to Republican Defectors, Current Crisis Is No Watergate

  As history has shown with the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, such investigations can gain legitimacy only when members of the president’s own party support them.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/8/19
  

  Will Trump’s use of executive privilege help him avoid congressional oversight? It didn’t help Richard Nixon

  by Ken Hughes

  “Why, we’ll just let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell,” Nixon said.

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• 5/9/19
  

  The Loss of Republican Principle

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy are handling Trump far different than their counterparts during Watergate. 

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• SOURCE: The Federalist
  4/22/19
  

  CNN Shows Zero Interest In Questioning Conventional Wisdom About Watergate

  by Geoff Shepard

  The producer assured me that CNN was committed to presenting a balanced view in its recent series on Richard Nixon, but she never even called back, and I think I know why.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/19
  

  The public, not Robert Mueller, will determine Donald Trump’s fate

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  Will Trump be Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/26/19
  

  Mueller’s Investigation Erases a Line Drawn After Watergate

  But the end of the inquiry made clear that President Trump had successfully thrown out the unwritten rules that had bound other chief executives in the 45 years since President Richard M. Nixon.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen?

  Robert Mueller’s predecessors investigated Watergate, Iran-contra and Bill Clinton. Here's what recent those examples can teach us. 

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  3/19/19
  

  Road to Mueller report paved by Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky, Waco

  Here is an explanation of some past investigations and how their findings were made public.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker Magazine
  3/6/19
  

  Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon

  by Ed Kilgore

  There are five reasons a broader Republican backlash like the one that helped push Nixon out of office won’t happen if Mueller’s suggestions of law-breaking are limited to obstruction of justice.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/6/19
  

  Michael Cohen’s testimony exposed a direct parallel between Trump and Watergate

  by Shane O'Sullivan

  Payoffs kept Watergate hidden, but eventually whistleblowers like Cohen flipped.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/21/19
  

  How the Republican Response to the Mueller Investigation Breaks With History

  Historians say this marks a new era of hyperpartisanship that will likely erode trust in traditionally independent law enforcement agencies.  

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/4/19
  

  Kruse and Zelizer: Watergate's lesson? If Democrats want to heal America, Trump must be held accountable

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  Accountability is essential to the long-term health of our democracy, more important than even healing the nation’s partisan divisions.

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• 1/20/19
  

  The Watergate at 50: What the Building Tells Us About the Nixon Administration's Initial Optimism and Eventual Demise

  by Joseph Rodota

  And what that means for our present political moment. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/8/19
  

  Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer: Trump's Demise Will Be "Worse Than Watergate"

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  If the multiple charges against Trump prove out, he’ll easily displace Nixon at the top of the Crooked Modern Presidents list.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  12-12-2018
  

  The Striking Similarities Between Why Trump’s and Nixon’s Personal Lawyers Were Sent to Prison

  Herbert W. Kalmbach, President Richard Nixon’s personal lawyer, received a prison sentence on June 17, 1974, exactly two years after the Watergate break-in, for funneling hush money to Watergate defendants.

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• 12-2-18
  

  It’s Watergate All Over Again in So Many Ways

  by James D. Robenalt

  Case in point: Trump’s announcement that a pardon for Manafort has not been ruled out.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-31-18
  

  National Archives releases draft indictment of Richard Nixon amid Mueller probe

  The documents, known as the Watergate Road Map, as released Wednesday contained redactions and never-before-seen remnants of the investigation into Nixon.

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• 11/11/18
  

  How Do Trump’s Attacks on the Media Stack Up Against Nixon’s?

  by Donne Levy

  Trump so far hasn’t wiretapped journalists (as far as we know), but that’s cold comfort.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-11-18
  

  Judge orders partial release of Watergate 'road map'

  A federal judge has ordered the partial release of a Watergate report that fueled an impeachment drive against President Richard Nixon and could serve as a precedent for a similar effort aimed at President Donald Trump.

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• 11/18/18
  

  Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  A point-by-point comparison shows the sad state in which we find ourselves.