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PoliticsYahoo News 360Can a ‘law and order’ message carry Trump to reelection?
Protests over the killing of George Floyd have upended life in cities across the country. Does the unrest create political opening for the president as he heads into a reelection fight?
PoliticsYahoo NewsHistorian Rick Perlstein says that violent protests could hurt Trump in November
The Pulitzer Prize winner says that violent demonstrations tend to hurt incumbents, as evidenced by GOP losses in the 1970 midterms.
PoliticsYahoo NewsImpeachment and a path to redemption for Trump
President Trump’s most effective path forward, not only to prevail in the impeachment proceedings but to end this ordeal and create a strong position from which to govern, is to follow the Clinton model rather than the Nixon path.
PoliticsYahoo News VideoCould President Trump be impeached and removed from office — but still reelected?
What happens when a presidential impeachment inquiry runs into a presidential election year? The United States in uncharted territory.
PoliticsYahoo NewsAs the public edges toward impeachment, will the GOP follow?
Virtually the entire Republican Party is in President Trump’s corner. But it’s good to remember that in the early days of Watergate it had seemed unlikely that Republican minds would change, either.
PoliticsYahoo NewsWatergate-era Dem urges party to go after Trump on all fronts
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of the Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon, warned Democrats in charge of making the case against Donald Trump need to learn some lessons from the past.
PoliticsYahoo News2020 Vision Wednesday: Trump says impeachment will be 'a positive for me in the election.' Will it?
There are many things that can derail a political career. Being found in bed with “a dead girl or a live boy” (in the immortal phrasing of Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards) is one. Impeachment is usually considered another. Yet there was President Trump on Tuesday, telling reporters at the United Nations that impeachment will be “a positive for me in the election.”
PoliticsYahoo NewsGillibrand lambastes Trump outside his NYC hotel, says she agrees with Richard Nixon's view the public should know if 'their president is a crook'
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook,” said Nixon. “Well, I’m not a crook.”
PoliticsYahoo NewsWhy neglected governors' races are more important than you think
If you want to live in the White House, first try the governor’s mansion. Seventeen times, a state governor has become president of the United States.
PoliticsYahoo NewsRichard Nixon: A Nixon-goes-to-China moment
Historian Evan Thomas examines Richard Nixon's defining moment of presidential leadership: initiating a relationship with China.
PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump declares mission accomplished in his bid to make America great again
The president blames the media for not sharing all the good news that's fit to print.
NewsYahoo NewsThe two-dimensional president
What profoundly moves or humbles Donald Trump? When does he admit self-doubt, and to whom? I have no idea, and neither do you.
NewsYahoo News Photo StaffDemocracy’s darkest moment: the Watergate scandal
It was famously described by the White House press secretary as a “third-rate burglary,” but it brought down a presidency. On the night of June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for allegedly breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in an office and hotel complex whose name has become synonymous with political scandal: the Watergate.Over the course of more than two years — driven by relentless digging by two young Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; a tough-minded federal judge, John J. Sirica, and ultimately by a congressional investigation whose hearings riveted the nation — the break-in was linked to President Nixon’s reelection campaign, and the subsequent coverup traced to the Oval Office itself.Impeachment proceedings were begun by the House Judiciary Committee in July, 1974, and a few weeks later, his support in the Senate collapsing, Richard Nixon became the first president in American history to resign. (Jerry Adler for Yahoo News)Find more news-related pictures in our photo galleries, and follow us on Tumblr.
NewsYahoo NewsWill the GOP turn on Trump? In Watergate, it took 2 years.
Barry Goldwater had had enough. The day before, after months of stonewalling, the Nixon White House had released a “smoking gun” tape revealing Richard Nixon had ordered a cover-up in the Watergate burglary. Two miserable years of White House denials had been rendered meaningless.
NewsLisa BelkinNot ‘just words’: Why Donald Trump’s lewd talk matters
“Words are loaded pistols,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind,” Rudyard Kipling said. On social media, Trump supporters are increasingly emboldened to use words that are historically out of bounds – c***, and k***, n***** and variations thereof — doing so because they are not “just words,” but are weapons.
NewsYahoo News ContributorsWhy 2016 isn’t 1968
Chaos is gripping the GOP’s national convention. The surface similarities to the election that brought Richard Nixon to power in 1968 have resonated with commentators and even Donald Trump’s own campaign manager. But as Day 3 of the Republican National Convention begins in Cleveland, let’s put a persistent meme to bed once and for all: 2016 isn’t 1968.
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