Fifty years ago, March 1, 1974, marked the beginning of the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. That’s the day the grand jury’s indictment was made public, naming seven of Nixon’s top aides in the alleged cover-up of those responsible for…
Recent rulings by two federal judges in the District of Columbia illustrate how politically biased its entire judiciary has become. Former Chief Judge Beryl Howell concluded that Donald Trump had not been sufficiently forthcoming in producing documents sought in a…
Hunter Biden has been indicted in Los Angeles on nine counts of tax charges and faces prison terms of up to 17 years. These are in addition to gun charges filed earlier in Delaware. It is interesting to contrast his…
It’s been 50 years since the 18½ minute gap was discovered in the White House tape of June 20, 1972, and we are no closer to resolving its origins than we were during the Watergate scandal. To put it into…
The 50th Anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre passed last month, with C-SPAN’s American History TV hosting a panel featuring prominent figures from that era, all happily reminiscing how the event “set off a chain of political and legal events…
Harsh criticism has been leveled against special counsel Jack Smith in response to his recent indictment of former President Donald Trump in the District of Columbia for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Three of the four counts are for…
Many Americans are still reeling from the Department of Justice’s announcement last month of a rather astonishing plea bargain for Hunter Biden. There are interesting parallels with the plea bargain reached with Watergate figure John Dean some 50 years ago….
The movement toward prosecuting people (i.e., politicians) and not crimes did not start with the current onslaught against former President Donald Trump. In the modern era, it stretches back to Robert Kennedy’s all-out effort to destroy Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa….
Election Day marks the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection, which remains the greatest electoral victory in American history, with our 37th president winning every state except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Nixon had barely won…
This is another in a series of articles about Watergate people and events, as the 50th anniversary of that scandal continues to unfold. In mulling over the Watergate scandal for the past 50 years, thinking about how it ruined so…