Nixons Second Term News Today

Years of that? weve never seen that before. the lesson of the nixon presidency is when the trouble starts and when the corruption starts to go public, the end can come quickly. on this day in 1973, one month into the second term of president nixon, no one in america was using the word, impeachment. no one in america was thinking that richard nixon wasnt going to get four more years. on this very day in 1973, a month into president nixons second term, "the new york times" front page did not have ...

President nixon, no one in america was using the word, impeachment. no one in america was thinking that richard nixon wasnt going to get four more years. on this very day in 1973, a month into president nixons second term, "the new york times" front page did not have a single corruption story about richard nixon. nixon hated "the new york times" but on this day there was nothing for him to complain about. february 20th, 1973. there he was on the front page with his labor secretary and the presid...

Talking about hope and change, the rising sun from his campaign logo and this was such a downgrade in terms of his message and brand. i think for some people it was unsettling. >> the context is the second biggest boycott in modern american history of an inauguration. only nixons second term was bigger and that was about the vietnam war more than it was about even richard nixon. john lewis saying hes an illegitimate president, but it is deeply unsettling in a sense. >> no doubt. more than 50 dem...

Wont get to the bottom of it. >> jeremy, im asking you to think about what you just said at the top of our broadcast. im thinking of nixons second term, yes, there was a cloud, there was anger in the streets, there was not dhash we yet knew, an ongoing crisis. a crisis that had started and it hit the ground before the man being sworn in. >> and the crisis could be compounded, brian, because if russia tries to do something say in syria or in europe against the border states of nato, and then the ...

Think about what you just said at the top of our broadcast. im thinking of nixons second term, yes, there was a cloud, there was anger in the streets, there was not dhash we yet knew, an ongoing crisis. a crisis that had started and it hit the ground before the man being sworn in. >> and the crisis could be compounded, brian, because if russia tries to do something say in syria or in europe against the border states of nato, and then the question is presented to the national security council, wh...