Richard Nixon

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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  Trump’s attempt to use Nixon’s outdated playbook will fail.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."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/16/2020
  

  Riots Helped Elect Nixon in 1968. Can Trump Benefit From Fear and Loathing Too?

  According to New York University historian Timothy Naftali, Trump's mimicry of Nixon's '68 campaign is "based upon a fundamental misreading of history."

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/13/2020
  

  Trump’s Lessons From Nixon Missed One Important Thing

  A platform of "law and order" no longer functions when there is no "silent majority" to receive it.

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• SOURCE: KPFA
  6/2/2020
  

  Explaining the Insurrection Act of 1807 and Looking Back on Nixon’s Law & Order Campaign (Podcast)

  Hear from historian Rick Perlstein on the history of Nixon's Law and Order Campaign.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/2/2020
  

  Law And Order Won’t Help Trump Win Reelection

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  The call for “law and order” is a complaint that those tasked with upholding the law and maintaining order have failed at the job and need to be replaced.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/2/2020
  

  You Can’t Be the ‘President of Law and Order’ if You Thrive on Chaos

  by Jamelle Bouie

  We should be aware of the past — we should understand the processes that produced our world — but it shouldn’t be a substitute for thinking. We are not them, and now is not then.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/31/2020
  

  This Election Isn't 1968 or 1992 or 2016

  Richard Nixon won by portraying himself as a unifier against an out-of-control left; Bill Clinton won reelection by carefully navigating the politics of crime and unrest. There is nothing very careful, yet, about what we've seen from this president.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/31/2020
  

  The Flawed Politics of a Law-and-Order Campaign

  by Walter Shapiro

  Looking back at the early Nixon years with a half-century’s hindsight actually offers reasons to hope. Even in 1968 and the divisive 1970 congressional elections that followed, voters were not easily gulled by Republican rabble-rousing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2020
  

  John Sears, Who Helped Guide Nixon And Reagan to The White House, Dies at 79

  John P. Sears was a powerful influence on Republican politics for over a decade.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/19
  

  How Richard Nixon captured white rage — and laid the groundwork for Donald Trump

  by Scott Laderman

  Fifty years ago, Nixon gave us the “silent majority.” Today, Trump proudly declares himself its standard-bearer.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/29/19
  

  Impeachment’s Role in History: Part Legal Creature, but Mostly Political

  The legal definition of the phrase ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ was left flexible by the framers of the Constitution to protect against abuses of power

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2019
  

  How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

  Tim Naftali was the first director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, California.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Unearths Audio of Ronald Reagan's Racist Conversation with Nixon

  by Tim Naftali

  In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.

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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.