Richard Nixon
Nixon’s trip to China 50 years ago is known as “the week that changed the world.” If Biden wants to improve his political fortunes he would do well to learn from it.
By the time Nixon resigned, Republicans were ashamed and appalled by Watergate. That’s not today’s GOP.
Activists on the right are fine with a more subdued approach now that the Supreme Court has their backs on expanding gun rights and further restricting access to abortion.
Rich Little’s latest stage performance posits that Richard Nixon’s Watergate culpability was zero, and that the shamed president resigned only for the good of the Republican Party.
Hungry for flattery, paranoid, and amoral as hell—Nixon was Trump 50 years ago. Kurt Andersen on his new Nixon podcast, Susan Glasser on Putin, and Crackhead Barney on MAGA.
Fifty years ago today, the House voted to lower the voting age to 18. Nixon backed it. But eventually, the right learned that Republicans do better when fewer people vote.
The BBC banned the 1969 documentary “Royal Family” from ever being shown again. It recently resurfaced online, and Tim Teeman sees why its intimacy may have angered the queen.