Before Watergate became a story that dominated the national media in the spring of 1973, there were individuals within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the IRS that took dramatic steps to block Nixon’s attempts to politicize their work.
The neglect of historical understanding of the antislavery impulse, especially in its early decades, alters how we view not just our nation’s history but the nation itself.
As faculty in history departments delved anew into explorations of the economic system, the American case in particular, students took leave of instruction in history at an acute rate.
Ukraine’s leaders were accustomed to wielding power by prosecuting their political opponents for corruption, and Yovanovitch’s push to end that practice earned their ire.
Acid rain was a major problem in the late twentieth century. Through years of regulation and reform, the threat from this acid was neutralized. If we don’t learn from history though, we could face the same terrible threat yet again.
Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn’t happened. Why?
The American experience is littered with scandals. When presidents have been unwilling to cooperate with an investigation, the resulting confrontation is often ugly and long-remembered, as the escalating Ukraine scandal undoubtedly will be.
