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Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon

The following article by Michael Koncewicz, Assistant Research Scholar, New York University, was posted on the Conversation website August 23, 2018:

Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson administers the oath to William D. Ruckelshaus his deputy attorney general Credit: John Duricka, AP

Republican leaders in 2018 are profoundly different than the ones who dealt with Watergate in the 1970s.

During Watergate, a significant number of GOP members of Congress and the Nixon administration publicly resisted President Richard Nixon’s efforts to undermine the rule of law.

Today’s GOP leaders, with few exceptions, meekly follow President Trump.

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