1973
“People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook,” President Nixon said, “Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal escalated, “Mr. Nixon was, in a word, playing the politics of survival,”
Newsweek said. “Operation Candor” was the “last and most desperate campaign of Richard Nixon’s long life in American politics,” and an effort to “save the Presidency that has taken him a quarter-century to achieve.” Despite “public theatrics” and “private promises,” however, he continued to lose support. Faced with the possibility of impeachment, Nixon resigned as President in 1974.
1993
The arrests of rappers Snoop Doggy Dog and Tupac Shakur raised “disturbing questions about ‘gangsta rap’ and its images of violence in the ‘hood.’” But is there a link between “capital rhymes and…
