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White House Mum on Whether Trump Is Recording Conversations

"I don't actually think Trump is recording his conversations. It would be a phenomenally shortsighted move, as recordings could be subpoenaed or otherwise leak out," Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, told VOA.

Nicole Hemmer

Jaws Drop After Trump Confessed To Two Of The Crimes That Got Richard Nixon Impeached

Donald Trump's NBC interview appears to open him up to allegations listed in the charges of impeachment against Nixon, President Obama's deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu pointed out early Friday morning. There are two specifically that Trump basically confessed to Thursday evening.

Chris Lu

"From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP"

As Donald Trump built his lead in the Republican primaries, the editors of National Review came out with an entire “Against Trump” issue, a full-throated — and ultimately ineffective — denunciation of the GOP nominee. Soon conservative media personalities were taking sides, culminating in the hiring of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon to run the Trump campaign. But the centrality of conservative media to presidential politics is not a new development.

Nicole Hemmer

‘Nixon speed-dating’ with Donald Trump

It is no small thing that as of today, the 112th of Donald Trump’s presidency, he has presided over a scandal about a (cyber) break-in at Democratic Party headquarters, his own “Saturday Night Massacre,” protests in the streets and campuses, war with the news media, and disputes about leaks and White House tapes. Nixonian? It took Richard Nixon five years and six months to compile such a record. The Trump administration has been like “Nixon speed-dating,” says Nicole Hemmer, a scholar of the presidency from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Nicole Hemmer

Sally Yates: ‘I did my job the best way I knew how’

“The Sally Yates who prosecuted the airport corruption case almost 25 years ago and the Sally Yates who testified Monday, those aren’t the same person,” said Doug Blackmon, who covered the case for the AJC. “They’re closely related,” said Blackmon, now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Douglas Blackmon

The Presidency

A forgotten lesson of Watergate

At least for now, the Comey firing could help Trump consolidate his support among conservatives and Republicans, the very people who have the power to hold him accountable