| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Since his first term in office, President Donald Trump's actions have drawn comparisons to President Richard Nixon. Now, Trump has selected the president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, Jim Byron, to oversee the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This choice, argues Michael Koncewicz in Made by History, is part of a longer effort to revise the lessons of Nixon's presidency and the Watergate Scandal. For decades, Watergate has been remembered as an unprecedented abuse of presidential power. Reframing Nixon in a more positive light may help justify renewed attacks on the administrative state and rule of law. | |
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| | |  | The History of Categorizing Immigrants as Either Good or Bad | In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories. |
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|  | The Forgotten History of High School Student Activism | In the 1960s and 1970s, high school student-led activism successfully reshaped school districts across the country. |
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|  | Homeownership Has Always Impacted American Democracy | Land and property ownership have colored politics in the United States for more than 400 years. |
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|  | What's in Remaining JFK, MLK, RFK Assassination Files | What experts on John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy assassinations hope to learn from files expected to be declassified |
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| | This week in 1952: Senator Estes Kefauver (D-NY) |  | The Mar. 24, 1952, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "Estes Kefauver's sensational success in New Hampshire was the first proof of a theory that has tantalized political experts for the last six months. The theory: after a long siege of public investigations, scandals and exposes of corruption, the U.S. voter is in rebellion against the professional politician. If the voter can avoid it, he doesn't want to argue about the complexities of government or foreign policy…A more imaginative friend clapped a coonskin cap on Kefauver's head at a luncheon rally. The gag grew until Kefauver eventually blossomed out in a coonskin cap haloed with electric lights. In the primary he polled 42,000 votes more than his nearest opponent." |
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| | This week in 1960: Jacques Cousteau, Aqua Lung inventor |  | The Mar. 28, 1960, cover of TIME |
| Boris Artzybasheff |
| "Cousteau looks forward to the day when free diving will be so commonplace that farmers in Aqua-Lungs will harvest crops of fish and plants cultivated in special concrete shelters. Peering far into the future. Cousteau predicts that surgery will give man gills, enable him to 'breathe' water, set him free as a fish for years beneath the sea. A second operation could easily return him to life in the air. 'Everything that has been done on the surface will sooner or later be done under water,' says Cousteau. 'It will be the conquest of a whole new world.' … Beyond that, Skindiver Cousteau does not presume to pinpoint the pleasures of his sport. 'What would you advise a baby to do when it is first born?' asks Cousteau. 'When a person takes his first dive, he is born to another world.'" |
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| This week in 1994: Tigers |  | The Mar. 28, 1994, cover of TIME |
| Jim Brandenburg |
| "Sadly, this precarious life is as good as it gets for tigers today. Outside protected areas, Asia's giant cats are a vanishing breed, disappearing faster than any other large mammal with the possible exception of the rhinoceros. Even inside the parks, the tigers are succumbing to poaching and the relentless pressure of human population growth. No more than 5,000 to 7,500 of the majestic carnivores remain on the planet — a population decline of roughly 95% in this century. Unless something dramatic is done to reverse the trend, tigers will be seen only in captivity, prowling in zoos or performing in circuses. The wild tigers of old will be gone forever, their glory surviving merely in storybooks, on film — and in dreams." |
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