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  • 12/17/19

    The Secret Plan to Force Out Nixon

    by Tim Naftali

    A newly released diary shows House Republican leaders pledging to oust the president months before he resigned. Why did they back down?

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    12/17/19

    History is clear: Voters reward, rather than punish, political courage

    by Jon Meacham and Michael E. Shepherd

    Over the past six decades, courageous high-profile votes have tended not to cost the courageous their seats. From Southern Democrats who supported the Civil Acts Right of 1964 to Republicans who backed Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 through the Clinton impeachment in the 1990s, tough votes have been difficult but not necessarily fatal.

  • SOURCE: The New Yorker
    12/2/19

    Republicans Defending Trump on Impeachment Should Fear the Judgment of History

    by Michael Luo

    This week, as the current Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump, these obituaries might serve as a reminder to the committee’s Republican members that the consequences of their decisions in the coming days will likely extend far beyond the next election.

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    11/19/19

    The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President

    by Michael Koncewicz

    Before Watergate became a story that dominated the national media in the spring of 1973, there were individuals within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the IRS that took dramatic steps to block Nixon’s attempts to politicize their work.