Prosecutors’ memos, previously unpublished, show that they interrogated Nixon on four additional topics, includingproposals, captured on the tapes but never enacted, to hire thugs to attack antiwar demonstrators.

…"Publication of the classified segment of the ex-president’s grand jury testimony represents a major addition to the historical record of the era of Vietnam and Watergate. Its significance extends to the current day.

"The issues that animated the “deep state” against Nixon and Kissinger were rooted in the Cold War. But the frictions inherent in the making of national security policy, most acute in times of war, are perennial. Moorer-Radford exposed a hidden feature of the American political system that endures:When excluded from their spheres of interest, entrenched bureaucratic forces will, almost as a biological reflex, respond aggressively.

"The Joint Chiefs’ spying formed only one prong of the campaign against Nixon, the most spied-on president in modern times. Declassified documents and scholarship published since 1974 have established that the F.B.I., under its director, J. Edgar Hoover, spied on Mitchell, the attorney general, and that the C.I.A. detailed its personnel to various units associated with Nixon, including the Watergate burglary team and “components intimately associated with the office of the president,” as the agency admitted in 1975.

'"Trump has long expressed admiration for Nixon. As early as 1982, the rising tycoon told the disgraced ex-president, “I think you are one of this country’s great men.” Not many prominent people in that era expressed such a sentiment". Both men achieved success at young ages. Both men, at once craving and scorning the approval of the elites, remained resentful of the establishment that they came to lead.

"They differ in two crucial respects. Trump’s purge of the federal government since returning to the presidency has displayed a ruthlessness toward the perceived “enemy within” that Nixon, despite similar inclinations, could never conjure — even when faced with criminal insubordination.

"Trump also appears on track to complete his second term."

NYT OpEd author: James Rosen is the chief Washington correspondent at Newsmax and the author, most recently, of “Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986-2001.”

Much moar -

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/trump-nixon-watergate-radford.html

=Another interesting tidbit:

“I remember when I saw Mao,” Nixon continued. Mao called himself the “most famous or infamous Communist in the world” and Nixon “the most famous or infamous capitalist in the world.” What brought the two men together? Nixon recalled Mao asking. “History brings us together in our interests,” Mao said. Nixon persuaded Mao to accept a defense alliance between the United States and Japan.