Opinion: America keeps telling itself the wrong story about Nixon's resignation

[Ramsey Barner]

Trump, however, was not the person who broke the system of accountability established by Nixon’s resignation. He was the beneficiary of a generation of right-wing activists who worked steadily to ensure that such a system wouldn’t work the next time around. Which is why, on the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, the best thing to do would be to embrace Watergate-era accountability as the exception, and do the hard work of building new systems of political accountability to serve Americans in the future.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/opinions/richard-nixon-resignation-50th-anniversary-watergate-trump-hemmer/index.html