Thursday, February 12, 2026

Nixon Gets a Closer Look

James Rosen's recent story in The New York Times about the recently released testimony of former President Richard Nixon deserves wide attention.

There was a "deep state" and there is no reason to believe it went away.

Richard P. Nathan's The Plot That Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency is on my 2026 reading list along with Silent Coup: The Removal of a President by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin.

Am also re-reading William Safire's Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House.

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