Nixon News & Notes
Richard Nixon has become a MAGA hero
When Nixon resigned in August 1974, he bore the brunt of America’s collective rage over the Watergate scandal. But as time goes on, Watergate looks less like the story of an imperial president and more like the story of a leader who lost control of the institutions surrounding him.
Richard Nixon made SBA loans available to Black entrepreneurs
Instead of government jobs and government housing and government welfare, Nixon said in accepting the Republican nomination in 1968, "Let government use its tax and credit policies to enlist in this battle the greatest engine of progress ever developed in the history of man—American private enterprise."
President Richard Nixon considered Mar-a-Lago for southern Camp David
Before it became a private club owned by former President Donald Trump, the famed and staggeringly opulent Mar-a-Lago estate decades ago was briefly in possession of the U.S. government when another U.S. president vowed, “I am not a crook,” during a politically tumultuous time.