Donald Trump has made history so many times.
The first president without government or military experience. The first to be impeached twice. The first to aggressively challenge the certification of his successor.
Trump also is being investigated for allegedly attempting to change the 2020 vote results in Georgia, a state he narrowly lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters attempted to stop the congressional certification of Biden as president. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and called the New York investigation “a witch hunt.”
The immediate cause of Nixon’s resignation was the discovery of the “smoking gun” - Oval Office tape recordings, initiated by Nixon himself, that revealed he had ordered a cover-up of the 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. By 1974, the scandal had expanded well beyond the initial crime. Many of Nixon’s top aides had stepped down and were eventually imprisoned. Nixon himself was a possible target of the Watergate special counsel.
“This much can be said: Nixon himself was very worried about the possibility , to the point of ruining his health,” Farrell said, referring to Nixon’s battles with phlebitis, the inflammation of veins in the leg. “He mused aloud about how some of the great political writing in history had been crafted in jail cells. His very worried family reached out to the White House, alerting Ford’s aides of the ex-president’s deteriorating condition.
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