Richard Nixon

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• SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review
  10/26/2020
  

  Q&A: Historian Rick Perlstein on Media ‘Bothsidesism,’ and Why 2020 Definitely Isn’t 1968

  Rick Perlstein has been reluctant to do media appearances, perceiving that journalists may use historical analogy as a shortcut to investigating and explaining the present. He discusses his thoughts on history and the media with CJR. 

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  10/26/2020
  

  To Understand The Spectacle Of Presidential Debates, Look Back To 1960, Says Harvard Historian

  Fred Logevall, author of a new JFK biography, discusses the 1960 presidential debates between Kennedy and Nixon. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  10/26/2020
  

  If only Richard Nixon had Listened to Jackie Robinson — The GOP Might be Doing Better than Trump Today

  by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick

  Despite Jackie Robinson's intercession, Richard Nixon's moment of indecision in 1960 allowed Jack Kennedy to connect his campaign with the cause of Martin Luther King and civil rights. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/20/2020
  

  Watergate Led to Reforms. Now, Would-Be Reformers Believe, So Will Trump

  Jack Goldmith and Robert Bauer, legal veterans of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations respectively, are proposing a slate of reforms to limit executive branch powers. They hope to match the legislation passed after Watergate and the revelations of intelligence community abuses exposed by the Church Committee.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/10/2020
  

  Taking Page From Authoritarians, Trump Turns Power of State Against Political Rivals

  No attorney general since John N. Mitchell, who served Mr. Nixon and brought conspiracy charges against critics of the Vietnam War, bent the Justice Department more in a president’s direction than William Barr.

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• 10/4/2020
  

  Loyalty and Duty in the Federal Bureaucracy, From Nixon to Trump

  by Michael Koncewicz

  Independent civil servants checked Richard Nixon's worst impulses to use the executive branch to punish enemies. The independence of the bureaucracy has since eroded, to Donald Trump's advantage. 

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• SOURCE: Associate Press
  9/23/2020
  

  Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon ’80s tale

  Letters between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in the 1980s, recently released by the Nixon Library, show the two men bonded over themes that resonate today: a shared distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as “props,” and more.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/10/2020
  

  Think The Trump Tapes Are Worse Than The Nixon Tapes? Think Again.

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  Recordings of the President reveal not only racial bigotry but a cynical indifference to the rule of law and a belief that any means were justified to prevail over political adversaries. No, we're talking about Richard Nixon. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism

  by Gary Bass

  The emotional displays of prejudice revealed by newly uncensored White House tapes involving Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger help to explain a foreign policy debacle. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2020
  

  The Daily: Trump's Suburban Strategy (audio)

  Trump has used recent protests to double down on a suburban strategy based in fear of crime and disorder. Writer Emily Badger investigates whether it will work. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  8/27/2020
  

  Trump and Biden Ready to Refight 1968

  Neither campaign can control the events — or root causes — driving America’s summer of unrest. But they both want to control the narrative.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/18/2020
  

  The Politics of Postal Reform Have Always Been Part of USPS History

  by Ryan Ellis

  An excerpt from Ryan Ellis' book "Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastructure Security."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/15/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein: 'If you're not writing about the berserk, you're not writing about America' (Interview)

  The historian has completed his epic on the rise of the US right – just in time for Donald Trump’s attempt to hold on to his throne.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/6/2020
  

  Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Today’s child-care crisis may have been fueled by the outbreak, but it is not new. It has been simmering below the surface for decades and can be traced back to President Richard M. Nixon’s 1971 veto of federally funded universal child care.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  Nixon Did Call the Military on Protesters. He Just Covered It Up.

  by Lawrence Roberts

  The antiwar movement had already helped turn public opinion against Mr. Nixon’s conduct of the war. He was determined to deny activists a victory that could cause further political damage.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Violence at the Root of the Silent Majority

  by Brian Tochterman

  As a vigilante film, “Joe” inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s.

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• SOURCE: WAMU
  7/27/2020
  

  The Justice Department Is Turning 150. Some Agency Veterans Say It Needs A Facelift

  Longtime watchers in government and law said the environment today echoes the most chaotic period in the modern history of the Justice Department. Watergate.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Will the Crisis Year of 2020 Turn Out Like 1968?

  by James Thornton Harris

  Trump’s attempt to use Nixon’s outdated playbook will fail. Our nation is younger, more diverse and better educated now. We know better. 

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/2/2020
  

  Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency

  by Daniel Bessner

  Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. 

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• SOURCE: Frank Interviews
  6/18/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein on Our "Law and Order" Presidents

  "I've been very fortunate in choosing the right topic."