Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, has spent time recently reviewing decades-old remarks from members of the 1974 committee. History, as it often does, has repeated itself, Hughes noted in a recent interview with Courthouse News. “It’s amazing how much political rhetoric of 2019 echoes that of 1974,” he said. “Republicans in 1974 called the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt and a kangaroo court. They complained their witnesses were not being called, that hearings were held in closed doors in executive session and that the president was the victim of selective leaks. That much hasn’t changed.”
Ken Hughes
