Watergate

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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.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-14-18
  

  Legal Experts Urge Release of Watergate Report to Offer Mueller a Road Map

  The analysts are seeking to draw attention to the option of sending a grand jury report to Congress, which they called “a key precedent.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-8-18
  

  "No One Could Believe It": When Ford Pardoned Nixon Four Decades Ago

  On Sept. 8, 1974, President Gerald R. Ford pardoned former President Richard M. Nixon over his role in the Watergate scandal. Reporters were stunned.

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• SOURCE: AP
  9-9-18
  

  Echoes of Watergate in Trump tumult

  This week, history did not just repeat itself, it climbed out of the dustbin and returned in the flesh.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9-7-18
  

  Anonymous 'resistance' is weak tea compared with standing up to Nixon

  by Michael Koncewicz

  If Richard Nixon were alive today, he probably would not agree that "President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader."

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  9-6-18
  

  "Bless Nixon for Those Tapes” -- An Interview with John Dean

  “Trump’s spent his entire life trying to avoid responsibility, and he’ll do the same here.”

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-3-18
  

  Measuring Presidents’ Misdeeds

  by Jill Lepore

  During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

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• 8/25/18
  

  There Is a Cancer Growing On Trump’s Presidency

  by James D. Robenalt

  It's not "RATS" who are doing him damage.  

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-23-18
  

  Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon

  by Michael Koncewicz

  During Watergate, a significant number of GOP members of Congress and the Nixon administration publicly resisted President Richard Nixon’s efforts to undermine the rule of law. Today’s GOP leaders, with few exceptions, meekly follow President Trump.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-13-18
  

  The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship

  by Michael Conway and Jon Marshall

  The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8-11-18
  

  Poll: Trump disliked as strongly as Nixon before his resignation

  A new Marist College poll found that 45 percent rated Trump’s job performance as poor — the same percentage who said Nixon was doing poorly as president in a Harris poll.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-26-18
  

  Michael Cohen’s Trump recordings and the secret history of secret microphones

  The history you need to know to put the Cohen recordings in context.

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• SOURCE: Times of San Diego
  7-24-18
  

  The Parallels Between Nixon’s Downfall and Trump’s Future

  by Colleen M. O'Connor

  Two problems, tapes and taxes, are common to both scandals.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7-20-18
  

  Can the Cohen Tapes Bring Down Trump?

  by Julian E. Zelizer

  In 1973, Nixon was confident the secret White House recordings would help his cause. That’s not how it worked out.