The former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon discusses the differences between Nixon and Donald Trump. While there are echoes’ of Nixon in Trump’s presidency,John W Dean says: ‘President Nixon was well-schooled in the presidency before he arrived in it … His campaign transition was very rapid/fast. I find the Trump administration 180 degrees absent from there. Dean was speaking at the New York public library at A Dangerous Moment: Shades of Red and Blue, hosted by the Ethics Centre and supported by the Guardian• Immigration, and fake news and terrorism: Rushdie and experts on a dangerous moment for the US Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com