Meacham: We Appear To Be on the Eve of Where Nixon Was Before He Launched the Saturday Night Massacre

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SCARBOROUGH: "But I do wonder if there was any other description for what happened this past weekend than suggesting it’s Nixonian, suggesting that it appears at least to be — we appear to be on the eve of where Nixon was before he launched the Saturday Night Massacre."
MEACHAM: “I think we are. I think that's right. I don’t think that’s hyperbolic. When you have a president who is basically engaging the Justice Department at this level of political detail and calling on investigating his predecessors. One Nixonian element here that hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention, at least explicitly, is both Nixon and Trump have an ongoing obsession with their former opponents in a way that I think shapes what they do in deleterious ways to say the least. Nixon was always thinking about — one of the reasons he justified the taping is FDR had done it, LBJ had done it. He was always obsessed with what President Kennedy had gotten away with, in his view. And of course, it’s clearly true with President Trump with an obsession with both Obama and Secretary Clinton."