Occupation: Former White House Counsel Birth: October 14, 1938
Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt..
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions..
I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….
There's no good that can come out of secrecy..
Who voted for Trump? Who are these people who, as he famously said, would let him shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still support him? It's people wh….
Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate ….
An answer is always a form of death..
9/11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to ….
There's a cancer on the presidency..
There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..
To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact that a small cliq….
There's a political reality about impeachment. It's purely a political process. The interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" can reach a long….
Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate ….
Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal..
There are similiarities between Nixon and Trump, no question. But there are also big differences. Nixon was shy, private, he attacked the media behin….
Donald Trump hasn't blown us up yet. But he terrifies me. For one thing, the incompetence. He doesn't have any real understanding of how the presiden….
Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates..
One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house ….
I'd give Donald Trump an "F." This has been the worst 100-day transition in my lifetime. And I was born during Franklin D. Roosevelt's term. This Whi….
I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be….
I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up..