Far worse than Nixon
Donald Trump’s pledge to restore America to order recalls Andrew Johnson more than Tricky Dicky
MANY HAVE compared the protests and violence that have consumed America to the conflagration of 1968, which saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy and race riots in many cities. None has done so more enthusiastically than Donald Trump.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Far worse than Nixon”
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