in connection with what was called" Watergate Scandal (水门事件)". Nixon had broken the law and therefore should be punished, Americans believed, even if he was the President. The belief in the rule of law goes beyond the area of politics to other areas of life that are governed by forma...
-Gatederives from the Watergate Complex—a set of apartments and office buildings in Washington DC. One of these happened to house the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in 1972 and was the site of the infamous break-in by operatives working for the Nixon administra...
Q: Yikes. So what was the serious equal protection problem? A: The problem was neither the butterfly ballot nor the 3% of Democrats (largely African-American) disenfranchised. The problem is that somewhat less than .005% of the ballots may have been determined under slightly different standards...
I was born into displacement. I have always been an alien so the fact I was in Finland didn’t make me feel any different. I knew I’d reached the land of opportunities. The first night in Helsinki it was very quiet, there was snow on the ground and I knew I would take the ...
Are we to take seriously the idea that “everyone’s values should be accomodated” or its approximation “do the equivalent of taking a vote” or its meta-approximation “do the equivalent of what a vote would give us if everyone was able to get smarter and more educated to the extent ...
While Republican Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968, the Watergate scandal led to his resignation and a growing public distrust of government. As a result, neither the Republican nor Democratic Party has enjoyed the same monopoly on politics as they had during previous eras. The United ...
It was what was supposed to be great about America: my dad was a machinist for a company and my classmate’s father was an executive in the same corporation. They lived in the same community and their kids received the same education and “opportunity”. There was no stratification by ...
When was FERPA passed? You can draw a direct line between FERPA and Watergate. Strange as the connection may sound, the Nixon Administration’ssecret data collectionduring the scandal created a strong appetite for privacy protections in the legislature in the early 1970s. ...
While there are those, especially Republicans, who label Carter the worst-ever U.S. President, just as many view the arch of Carter legacy as being so much more than his presidency. President Carter who passed away Sunday before last at 100 years old was the oldest former President, and ...
Jake Tapper abruptly ended an interview with White House adviser Stephen Miller on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. Miller was there to talk about Michael Wolff's new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, but refused to answer questions about Trump directly and repeatedly atte...