[Fiji Hill]

The parallels are uncanny. Nixon was hated, detested and savaged by the press; so is Trump. Nixon received almost no Republican support once the ‘scandal,’ broke; Trump has getting close zero Republican support from the time Mueller was appointed (and, indeed, has been brutally attacked by his own party), Nixon’s crimes were blown completely out of proportion; Trump is being investigated for obstruction for A, simply doing his job, and B, wrong-think.

Like Trump, Nixon had a problem with his Attorney General Elliot Richardson, who would play a large role in his downfall. Richardson, a liberal member of the Eastern Establishment with which Nixon had fought throughout his entire political career, appointed Archibald Cox, who had been JFK's Solicitor General, to be the Watergate Special Prosecutor. When Nixon finally ordered Richardson to fire him, Richardson resigned instead, in what the press called the Saturday Night Massacre.

Nixon, for some strange reason, had appointed Richardson to replace Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General when Nixon, again for for some strange reason, forced Kleindienst to resign in April, 1973. Had Kleindienst, a Goldwater man, remained, it is unlikely that he would have appointed a Kennedy man as the Watergate Special Prosecutor.

[Fantasywriter]

Thank you very, very much for taking the time to explain all that. I didn’t know *any* of it. The details are just fascinating.

Personally, I don’t place a lot of blame on Trump for hiring Sessions. I thought it was a good appointment at the time. Sessions bamboozled quite a few people, and that’s entirely on him.