Richard nixon

In the last five years of his life, when I knew Richard Nixon, nothing described him better than Milton’s “calm of mind, all passion spent.” During the most tumultuous political career in American history he had come back many times, but the greatest comeback of all was in full swing. His enemies had seized control of the puritanical conscience of America to slay him, unjustly, and he was manipulating the same national conscience, which was founded on Plymouth Rock and has survived all the corruption and hypocrisy and violence of American public life, and when aroused, is insuperable. Since his political fall, and later his death, polls increasingly indicate public

From Truman to Trump

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They just know Trump’s handling it wrong

July 1974 or July 2024? The answer, of course, is both

At some point between the Nixon administration and Donald Trump’s first administration, impeachment went to drama school

The House has voted to impeach a federal official only twenty-one times in the 234 years the Constitution has been in effect

On January 6, when it really counted, he did the right thing

The national security state has far more secrets than it can reasonably be expected to protect

Fifty years on, the hero of Watergate has become little more than a stenographer