On March 24th, 2024, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz penned an opinion piece for Time titled “The Alarming Effort To Rewrite the History of Watergate.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article.

The effort to rescue Nixon’s legacy has now merged with a broader rejection of the liberal establishment, democratic institutions, and the historical record itself. Now that the former president of the Nixon Foundation is serving as the leader of the National Archives, this war on the history of Watergate has meaningful institutional power. That’s why it is so important to understand that reinterpreting Watergate as an attack on the president rather than as the consequences of his abuse of power is about politics, not historical accuracy.

Read the full article here.

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