How to resign

Review of "Richard Nixon: The Life" by John A Farrell. By Barton Swaim.

Citing Sean Hannity’s ardent defense of President Donald Trump, Geraldo Rivera on Thursday bragged that if the Fox News host were around during Richard Nixon’s time, the embattled former president wouldn’t have resigned. “Nixon never would have been forced to resign if you existed in your current state back in 1972, ’73, ’74,” Rivera said during Hannity’s radio program.

Richard Nixon’s telephone calls came regularly during the 1968 campaign. And H.R. Haldeman took meticulous notes, jotting down the instructions he received from the candidate.

President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey has drawn comparisons to events over 40 years ago under President Richard Nixon.

America’s Great Leap Backwards. By James Petras.

Surprise: Nixon had zero chill.

These three books, published well before the election, offer insight into what happened and why. By Allen Barra.

In October 1968, during the Paris Peace Talks, the U.S. was ready to agree to cease bombing Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam, in exchange for concessions that would halt the decades-long conflict which eventually killed an estmiated 58,000 American soldiers, 2 million Vietnamese civilians and 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong combatants. But suddenly, the day before the 1968 presidential election, a close race between Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, South Vietnam inexplicably walked away from the negotiating table. Direct U.S. military involvement in the war lasted another five years.

Richard M. Nixon always denied it: to David Frost, to historians and to Lyndon B. Johnson, who had the strongest suspicions and the most cause for outrage at his successor’s rumored treachery. To them all, Nixon insisted that he had not sabotaged Johnson’s 1968 peace initiative to bring the war in Vietnam to an early conclusion. “My God. I would never do anything to encourage” South Vietnam “not to come to the table,” Nixon told Johnson, in a conversation captured on the White House taping system.

New evidence proves that Richard Nixon sabotaged peace talk plans in 1968, a move that may be worse than Watergate. By John A. Ferrell.

“You gotta swallow this one,” says a Republican hack in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, referring to the 1960 election, in which John F. Kennedy prevailed. “They stole it fair and square.” By David Greenberg. (Oct. 16, 2000)

Richard Nixon

Hunter S. Thompson's scathing obituary of Nixon, originally published in Rolling Stone on June 16, 1994.

Nixon’s victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.

Somehow I’d missed the earlier news that Roger Stone—Dick Nixon dirty trickster, fascist fan of Roy Cohn, lobbyist for some of the worst dictators in the world—was running Trump’s campaign. By Mark Ames. (Aug. ’15)

The prickly politics of the 37th president have been reanimated for the social-media age. By Dan Zak.