Richard Nixon

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• 2/14/2021
  

  What Becomes of a Broken Party?

  by James Robenalt

  The Republican Party seems to be refusing the opportunity to save itself by rejecting Trumpism. His acquittal in a second Senate trial means he will be free to demand the party bend to his will or be destroyed. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/15/2021
  

  The Lessons of the Nixon Pardon

  Isaac Chotiner interviews Rick Perlstein on the nature of presidential misconduct and accountability. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/15/2020
  

  James Flug, Who Helped Block Nixon Nominees and Investigated Watergate, Dies at 81

  James Flug, an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, played a significant role in Senate investigations and in the successful political opposition to Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. 

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  12/4/2020
  

  The Contentious History of U.S. Presidential Pardons—From the Whiskey Rebellion to Watergate

  Rumors that Donald Trump has considered offering preemptive pardons to his children and inner circle of advisors prompt a consideration of the history of the pardon power. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  12/8/2020
  

  Cleaning House: Watergate and the Limits of Reform

  by John A. Lawrence

  The reform agenda of the "Watergate Babies" class elected to Congress in 1974 achieved important successes but failed to prevent either the rise of the imperial presidency or increased partisan polarization. 

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• SOURCE: New York Labor History
  12/6/2020
  

  The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, And The Dawn Of The White Working-Class Revolution (Review)

  Historian Michael Koncewicz reviews a new book on the notorious "Hard Hat Riot," when a mob of construction workers and Wall Street traders attacked antiwar protesters; the incident remains a touchstone for thinking about the politics of class and the culture war. 

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• SOURCE: University of Virginia
  12/1/2020
  

  How the 1968 Presidential Transition Compares to Today’s

  by Marc Selverstone

  Taped recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal the conflict between LBJ and Richard Nixon over the degree to which a president-elect could expect to influence policy before being inaugurated. 

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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.