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Hero of 2024: A Half-Century Later, Richard Nixon Was Finally Vindicated
Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.
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Dan Friedman
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Mother Jones
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December 27, 2024
Nixon’s Official Acts Against His Enemies List Led to a Bipartisan Impeachment Effort
An enemies list isn’t a weapon against ‘the Deep State.’ It was a tool Richard Nixon used to create a deep state of his own.
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Ken Hughes
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The Conversation
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December 18, 2024
Two and a Half Hours Alone with Nixon, the Anti-Trump
When Nixon practiced law, he declined divorce cases because he disliked frank sexual talk from women. Trump asked Playboy to run a “Girls of Trump” feature.
by
Jerelle Kraus
via
LA Progressive
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August 6, 2024
How the World’s Biggest Basketball Star Helped Richard Nixon Woo Black Voters
It was a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion.
by
Shaun Assael
via
Politico Magazine
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July 7, 2024
Richard Nixon Would Have Loved the Court’s Immunity Decision
I would know.
by
John Dean
via
The Atlantic
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July 3, 2024
He Told Richard Nixon to Confess
Most ministers were silent about Watergate. Why was one evangelical pastor different?
by
Daniel Silliman
via
Christianity Today
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July 1, 2024
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The Leaders of Tomorrow
What happened in 1970 after Richard Nixon was told, “I doubt that there would be any problem of student demonstrations in Tennessee.”
by
Katherine J. Ballantyne
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HNN
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May 8, 2024
Microfilm Hidden in a Pumpkin Launched Richard Nixon’s Career 75 Years Ago
On Dec. 2, 1948, evidence stashed in a hollowed-out pumpkin incriminated suspected Soviet spy Alger Hiss and boosted a young Richard Nixon’s political status.
by
Gordon F. Sander
via
Retropolis
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December 2, 2023
Richard Nixon’s Last Crusade
America’s 37th president tried to save America’s Russia policy in the 1990s.
by
Anthony J. Constantini
via
The American Conservative
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September 19, 2023
Nixon Was the Weirdest Environmentalist
Richard Nixon helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.
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Liza Featherstone
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The New Republic
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April 20, 2023
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The "Madman Theory" Was Quintessential Nixon
The rash ruse was central to Nixon’s strategy to fight the Cold War, and can also tell us a good deal about the famously elusive ex-president himself.
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Zachary Jonathan Jacobson
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HNN
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March 26, 2023
The Pardon of President Nixon: Annotated
President Ford’s unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon created political controversy. It also tarnished Ford’s own reputation with the American public.
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Liz Tracey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
September 8, 2022
Regime Change, American Style
A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.
by
Christopher Caldwell
via
First Things
on
May 20, 2022
The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko
The less known story of Richard Nixon and his genuine love and care for his hometown team, the New York Mets.
by
Richard Staff
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Defector
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May 19, 2022
Daniel Schorr and Nixon’s Tricky Road to Redemption
Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.
by
Ryan Reft
via
Tropics of Meta
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February 25, 2022
The Time Nixon’s Cronies Tried to Overturn a Presidential Election
The gambit was cynical and disruptive, but in the end it didn’t work.
by
David Greenberg
via
Politico Magazine
on
October 10, 2020
Richard Nixon, Modular Man
Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.
by
Phil Christman
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
April 6, 2020
When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media
Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.
by
Matt Giles
via
Longreads
on
November 8, 2018
An Inquiry Into Abuse
Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.
by
Elon Green
via
Longreads
on
August 23, 2018
What Happens When There’s a Madman in the White House?
“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
by
Bill Minuntaglio
,
Steven L. Davis
via
Literary Hub
on
January 10, 2018
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