As Bad As Nixon Was, Things Got So Much Worse After He Left the White House Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace on the threshold of impeachment as a result of the Watergate scandal. Two years earlier, five men, including a salaried...
Worked security for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign The 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was a fascistic spectacle where Donald Trump and many of the other speakers spewed vile anti-immigrant rhetoric and a masochistic ultra-nationalistic, extreme right-wing ideology. Fifty-three years earlier, the CEO of the convention’s host committee, Stephen...