Richard Nixon

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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.

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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.