Richard Nixon

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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.

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• SOURCE: Background Briefing
  1/27/19
  

  Sidney Blumenthal on Roger Stone's History With Trump

  The best-selling author and senior political advisor was interviewed on a recent podcast.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/25/19
  

  How Roger Stone Connects Donald Trump to Richard Nixon

  His long history with the Republican party. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/19/19
  

  The Striking Contradictions of Richard Nixon's Inauguration 50 Years Ago, as Observed by Hunter S. Thompson

  It had been a year of assassinations and police riots and defeats that had led, for Hunter Thompson, to the most unthinkable outcome of all: Richard Nixon’s victory march to the White House lawn. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/19
  

  Robert J. Brown Worked With Both MLK and Nixon. Here’s What He Says Went on Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

  The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon.

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• 1/20/19
  

  The Watergate at 50: What the Building Tells Us About the Nixon Administration's Initial Optimism and Eventual Demise

  by Joseph Rodota

  And what that means for our present political moment. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-6-18
  

  Nixon Biographer Wins American History Book Prize

  John A. Farrell, a journalist and the author of “Richard Nixon: The Life,” has won a $50,000 prize awarded by the New-York Historical Society.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2-14-16
  

  Henry Kissinger was just following orders

  by Ray Locker

  Sanders and Clinton should be arguing about Richard Nixon, not his henchman.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  8-26-15 (accessed)
  

  The Richard Nixon - Ray Conniff Incident

  Historic coverage of an incident during a concert by Ray Conniff at the White House on January 28, 1972

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7-14-15
  

  “The Most Dangerous Man in America”

  by Tim Weiner

  The Fall of Richard Nixon

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6-15-15
  

  Fueled By Fear, How Richard Nixon Became 'One Man Against The World'

  by Tim Weiner

  "The president was drunk."

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• 6-7-15
  

  Richard Nixon, Joe Biden and the Humanity of a Moment Shared by Political Opponents at a Time of Family Crisis

  by James Robenalt

  What Nixon said to Biden when his wife and son were killed in a car crash.

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• 5-3-15
  

  Just Why Did Nixon Go to Venezuela in 1958 Anyway?

  by Manny Chavez

  It was obvious to our embassy that disaster loomed.

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• 3-23-15
  

  The Secret Nixon Library

  by Anthony Clark

  Until Watergate stopped him, Nixon planned to build his presidential library on federal land confiscated from Camp Pendleton. This would have been illegal, but Nixon figured out a way around the law, complete with a cover-up.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  9-8-14
  

  Watergate’s most lasting sin: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and the pardon that made us all cynics

  by Rick Perlstein

  Ford let Nixon off 40 years ago today. That launched Iran-Contra, "too big to fail" -- and proved power trumps law.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5-20-14
  

  Who Owns Richard Nixon?

  by Jeffrey Frank

  At the Nixon Library the long war of ideological office politics goes on.