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Richard Nixon

What did Richard Nixon write in the margins of his books?

John Fea   |  September 20, 2023

Today The Atlantic is running a fascinating piece by Andrew Ferguson on researching Nixon’s marginalia. Here is a taste: Call it coincidence, serendipity, an aligning of the planets—whatever the term, the moment was creepy and amusing all at once. I...

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The Author’s Corner with Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 8, 2023

Kathryn Cramer Brownell is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. This interview is based on her new book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Princeton University Press, 2023). JF: What led...

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The Nixon Library has released another recording in which Billy Graham and Richard Nixon discuss Jews and the “Synagogue of Satan”

John Fea   |  October 27, 2022

Back in September we called your attention to a 1972 conversation between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon that was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” The conversation reveals Graham talking about Jews as part...

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Billy Graham to Richard Nixon: Satan was working through the Jews, but Hitler handled it all wrong

John Fea   |  September 11, 2022

The Graham-Nixon conversations were much worse than we originally thought. In late July 2018, the full conversation of a 1972 Billy Graham-Richard Nixon conversation was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” It was labeled...

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Why presidents can’t keep their documents

John Fea   |  August 15, 2022

There is a reason why the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last week. Here is a nice explainer from National Public Radio: For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them...

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Who will be the last Trump evangelical standing?

John Fea   |  June 29, 2022

Today, after watching another day of damning testimony before the House January 6th Committee, I was reminded again of this passage from Grant Wacker‘s biography of Billy Graham: The details of the low-level crime and high-level mendacity that led to...

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How did Trump respond to Wednesday’s arguments in his impeachment trial?

John Fea   |  February 11, 2021

I don’t think there has ever been a more open and shut impeachment case in American history. Even Richard Nixon did not incite a riot on the U.S. Capitol. Of course most GOP Senators do not agree with me. Nor...

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