Trump Is No Nixon—He’s Worse: “I am not a crook,” Richard Nixon insisted in 1973, as the Watergate scandal closed in. He looked tired, defensive, and alone. Fifty years later, Donald Trump—facing a ...

During the 1980s, Donald Trump and Richard Nixon were friendly acquaintances and mutual admirers. In 1982, Trump wrote Nixon a fan letter saying, “I think you are one of the country’s great men, and ...

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust. Even today, decades after his ...