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Vance: Watergate would be ‘12-hour news story’ today
Key takeaways
- The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy, Vance said during a conversation with the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.
- Vance, who said he always liked Nixon, drew parallels between the former president and what he described as the deep state actors trying to take down President Trump.
- If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first administration.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy, Vance said during a conversation with the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.
Nixon resigned in 1974 after investigations by the Washington Post revealed his administration and reelection campaign s involvement in an espionage plot to gather information about Democratic rivals in the 1972 presidential election.
Vance, who said he always liked Nixon, drew parallels between the former president and what he described as the deep state actors trying to take down President Trump.
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