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Trump's bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency

  • Written by Ken Hughes, Research Specialist, the Miller Center, University of Virginia
President Richard Nixon, left, and President Donald Trump, right.AP//Frank C. Curtin; REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Whatever Donald Trump does, Richard Nixon usually did it first and better.

Nixon got a foreign government’s help to win a presidential election over 50 years ago. Trump’s imitation of the master has proven far from perfect, and...

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