Richard Nixon and the Fear of Failure: 50 Years of Watergate

Richard Nixon and the Fear of Failure: 50 Years of Watergate

A messianic obsession to be more powerful and more successful than all previous ones. Unscrupulousness. Financed by oil millionaires. And a fondness for hamburgers. Three days after Richard Nixon’s resignation, the star 1973 portrait of the fallen US President. Anyone reading it today will recognize astonishing parallels with a certain Donald R. Trump.

Klaus Liedtke

This portrait of Richard Nixon was published on June 20, 1973 – three days after the US President’s historic resignation.

The day Richard (“Dick”) Nixon decided to become a politician was not a good day for America. Dick was twelve, and the newspapers reported sensationally about a “scandal of the century”: in the spring of 1923, ministers under President Harding had secretly sold state oil fields for their own funds. “When will the President act?” asked the “New York Times” and lamented the quagmire of government corruption.

Source: Stern

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