Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace 52 yrs ago today amid revelations about the shocking corruption of the WH staff, DOJ, FBI, CIA & IRS to punish his poltical enemies and cover up their crimes.
But would he have quit today, w/Fox News & the Right-wing media infrastructure behind him?
Would Republicans in Congress, who admirably cooperated in a probe of the president and his men, have done so if conditions were what they are today?
Given today's extreme partisanship, would conservative icon Barry Goldwater have visited the president at the WH to tell him that if there were a vote to convict him in the senate, "You would have five votes, and mine would not be among them?"
The sobering reality, quite probably, is no.
Nixon would have pulled a
@realDonaldTrump and blustered his way through it.
Nixon's Republican successor as president, Gerald Ford, joined the Congress in a season of reform, to set up firewalls and protect the rule of law against future incursions.
Many of those firewalls and reforms have been shredded today.