The ‘Deep State’ Didn’t Take Nixon Down. Nixon Did.

By Richard J. DavisPhilip Allen LacovaraRichard Ben-VenisteJill Wine-BanksCarl B. FeldbaumNick AkermanGeorge FramptonKenneth GellerHenry HechtPaul R. Michel and Roger Witten

The authors served on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.

One of President Richard Nixon’s longtime defenders recently gave a presentation to Justice Department officials, arguing that Nixon and a clutch of his lieutenants were mistreated in the Watergate investigation. In June, Vice President JD Vance claimed that the “deep state took down” Nixon, adding, “It’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump.” In July, The Wall........

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