Crime And Conscience
February 24, 2020
Ben Holland, Congressional powers, Donald Trump, John Kennedy, John Mitchell, Laura Davison, presidential powers, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, role of the U. S. Attorney General, Watergate0 Comment
The latest round of scandals involving the President and the Attorney General is another body blow to our democracy. True, we’ve seen cozy relationships between a President and the Department of Justice before: John Kennedy appointed his brother, Robert Kennedy as U. S. Attorney Gen
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January 11, 2017
Donald Trump, He's Making A List, Omaarosa Manigualt, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, the US Presidency and mental illness, Watergate, William Binney
Writer Rick Perlstein draws some frightening comparisons between Richard Nixon and Donald trump, but concludes that of the two, Nixon, because he was an introspective man, set limits on his immorality. (He’s Making a List,” by Rick Perlstein, New Republic, Jan/Fe, 2017 pgs. 18-1
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