Michael Koncewicz

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

In 1974, after years of grinding war in Vietnam had exhausted most of the antiwar movement, Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda came up with a new strategy.

The famous historian was also an antiwar activist who went to North Vietnam in 1968 to accompany three captured US pilots back home.

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

And history says they have a reason to be.

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.