Richard Nixon and Donald Trump may seem similar, but they have key differences. Official White House portraits, CC BY-ND As a scholar of American politics and public opinion, I believe the parallels ...

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Forty years ago Sunday, then-President Richard Nixon first uttered the now infamous phrase, "I am not a crook." Nixon made the declaration during... 'I Am Not A Crook': How A Phrase Got A Life Of Its ...

The Department of Agriculture ahead of the military parade that took place on President Trump's birthday in June. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) “I am not a crook,” President Nixon said in 1973. “I ...

Trump Is No Nixon—He’s Worse: “I am not a crook,” Richard Nixon insisted in 1973, as the Watergate scandal closed in. He looked tired, defensive, and alone. Fifty years later, Donald Trump—facing a ...

In his Watergate memoir, the would-be president is remarkably honest about his conflict as a loyal Republican confronted with his president's perfidy. Imagine such a Republican today.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yet there is a telling difference between the two men. Nixon acknowledged the ...