[History] Biden’s Sense of ‘Déjà Vu’ 50 Years After Nixon Resigned

On 8 July 1974, the Supreme Court asked President Richard Nixon to hand over the unedited tapes of 64 conversations he had held at the White House covering the period of the Watergate Scandal in 1972. The Nixon Administration had been under fire for two years over the 1972 break-in, which had led to the bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, DC. One of the tapes unwillingly handed over by Nixon was dated 23 June 1972. This proved that not only had he been aware of what had happened at the Watergate…