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Recorded only a few days after the break-in, it documented the initial stages of the cover-up: it revealed Nixon and Haldeman had a meeting in the Oval Office during which they discussed how to stop the FBI from continuing its investigation of the break-in, as they recognized that there was a high risk that their position in the scandal might ...
Planning began in late 1970 and an office opened in the spring of 1971. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds, and was involved in the Watergate scandal. [2] The CRP used $500,000 in funds raised to re-elect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars. This act helped turn ...
Dozens of Trump administration officeholders resigned in reaction to the Capitol storming, even though their terms in office would expire fourteen days later with the inauguration of President Biden. Some senior officials, however, decided against resigning in order to ensure an orderly transition of power to the incoming Biden administration. [51]
Nixon and Trump formed a mutual admiration society. After a 1987 appearance on “The Phil Donahue Show,” Nixon wrote Trump that his wife, Pat, thought Trump did “great.”
The Nixon pardon of Sept. 8, 1974, caused a political and legal earthquake that still reverberates in the age of Trump. How Richard Nixon's pardon 50 years ago provides fuel for Donald Trump's ...
After Nixon became president in January 1969, he appointed Mitchell as Attorney General of the United States while making an unprecedented direct appeal to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that the usual background investigation not be conducted. [17] Mitchell remained in office from 1969 until he resigned in 1972 to manage Nixon's reelection campaign.
There is no evidence, much less any established public consensus, that impeachment of President Joe Biden is warranted or desirable, writes constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt.
Donald Trump has had his hiring decisions criticized due to relatively high level of scandals and legal trouble. [1] [2] Turnover in the Trump administration was the highest of all presidents since Brookings Institution started measuring in 1980, and cause for concern according to some experts.