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5 days ago · John F Kennedy v Richard Nixon, 1960. The first ever televised presidential debate had a huge role in John F Kennedy winning the presidency. Heading in to the debate, then-vice president Nixon had ...
18 hours ago · That quote was from former President Richard Nixon in an interview with David Frost after he had resigned and been pardoned for his involvement in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in of the ...
2 days ago · The poster child for this story is 1968, when Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota took on President Lyndon Johnson in the primaries. McCarthy’s strength led Johnson to withdraw, and for party regulars to engineer the nomination of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. This ended with the victory of Richard Nixon in the general election.
1 day ago · Richard Nixon, 1974. Affirmed, US Supreme Court, 2024 — John W. Dean (@JohnWDean) July 1, 2024 — John Dean, former White House Counsel under President Richard Nixon, in a tweet that’s going ...
1 day ago · Former President Richard Nixon’s counsel John Dean said Monday that the Supreme Court’s decision that Donald Trump has full immunity for “official” actions he took as president — even his attempted coup — likely would have meant that Nixon was immune from his criminal conduct during the Watergate scandal that led to his resignation.
1 day ago · “As I looked at it, I realized Richard Nixon would have had a pass,” Dean said on a press call with the Defend Democracy Project, a group that advocates for free and fair elections. “Virtually all of his Watergate-related conduct” and “virtually all that evidence falls in what could easily be described as ‘official conduct,’” he said.
