Labor Day marks the 50th anniversary of Watergate’s origins, which grew into the greatest political scandal in our history, resulting in President Richard Nixon’s resignation, along with conviction of two dozen members of his administration. Daniel Ellsberg, who was employed…
Winston Churchill once remarked that history would treat him well because he intended to write the history. And he did. Churchill’s histories of the first and second world wars — 17 volumes in all — frame those conflicts to place…
I used to work in an office at the Old Executive Office Building right next to the White House. In the next office was a man I knew nothing of named E. Howard Hunt. In and out of his office…
The headline over there at the Epoch Times was this: Trump Suggests He’ll Appoint ‘Special Prosecutor’ The story, a report on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox show Sunday Morning Futures said this: President Donald Trump said he is considering appointing a special…
Rallygate is the new Watergate. A failed burglary of the DNC in 1972 by Nixon dirty tricksters has become the failed sabotage of a Trump campaign rally in 2020. In the immediate aftermath of the Trump Tulsa rally, here was the…
Richard Nixon resigned 45 years ago, on August 9, 1974, in the face of certain impeachment by the House of Representatives and probable conviction following a Senate trial. It also seems that he did so to spare the nation further…
Opposition research conducted by the government? What a terrifying thought. The very idea that those in power would somehow become so sure of themselves and their right to power that they would direct government agents to conduct research against political…
This is a wonderfully complicated legal essay, as “Things Nixon” can sometimes be — pretty much the epitome of what Professor Karl Llewellyn described in his classic 1930 lectures on the law and law school, titled The Bramble Bush. During…
In case you somehow missed it, the latest Trump outrage is the allegation that he pressured Ukraine’s newly elected president to launch an investigation of Joe Biden, under threat of cutting off American military aid. In what appears to be…
