The Nixon tapes would not end Richard Nixon’s presidency today.
In 1974, the decisive evidence in Watergate was not a rumor or a partisan claim. It was a tape. When the Supreme Court forced Nixon to release his Oval Office recordings in United States v. Nixon, Americans accepted a basic premise: the tape was real. The fight was over what it meant, not whether it existed.
Keith Kindred taught at the high school and college levels for 33 years and now writes about
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