Written shortly after Nixon’s resignation, James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” speaks to today’s political corruption too.
Tag: Richard Nixon
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Get me rewrite!
Aaron Sorkin rewrites Chicago history to help beat Trump.
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Enemies of my enemy
Learning to love the never-Trump crowd at the Lincoln Project
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Panic peddlers
Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.
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Slow Burn re-creates the daily barrage of information during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
And it asks the question, which details from the current administration will still matter 20 years from now?
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I guess we won’t have Rahm to kick around anymore
In a surprise decision, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced he won’t seek a third term in office.
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Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
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Frost/Nixon depicts the thoughtfulness and grace of . . . Richard Nixon?
Oh, the good old days when a former president admitted to criminal complicity on prime-time television!
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The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition
How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
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Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news
Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.
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In firing Comey, Trump pulls a Nixon—again
By sacking Comey, Trump shows a defiance of FBI investigators that even Nixon didn’t dare.
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Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state
In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.
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Donald Trump is a one-man Watergate
A look back at the classic characters of that ur-political scandal reveals some surprising similarities to the current president.
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How does Trump stack up against America’s greatest presidents?
Historians surveyed by C-SPAN ranked Lincoln first, Nixon 28th, and Buchanan last.