James Rosen

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Morning Wire · No One Thought He Could Do It — But Nixon Won The Culture War · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

The issues that animated the actions taken by the deep state against Nixon and Kissinger in their time were motivated by the Vietnam War.

and by the frictions that are perennial in the making of national security policy, but which are particularly acute in times of war.

Today, of course, we have in President Trump's time, evidence that we've seen of a so-called hashtag resistance,

to his policies as president, both in his first and his second term.

There are key similarities between the two men, and Donald Trump, since the early 80s, has proclaimed his admiration for Richard Nixon at a time when it wasn't a common sentiment to hear.

And I ended this long article in the New York Times by saying two differences between the two men.

Even though, again, they have similarities.

They both achieved success early on.

They both came to resent the establishment that they came to lead, in a sense.

But the key differences are as follows.

In this second term, President Trump has displayed a ruthlessness toward purging of the so-called or the perceived enemy within the government that President Nixon, despite similar inclinations, could never quite conjure, even when faced, as in the Maura Radford scandal, with direct criminal insubordination.

And the other big difference is that at least as we sit here and speak today, Lyndon, President Trump appears on track to complete his second term.

Well, that kind of intrigue, the kind of intrigue we're talking about has been the stuff of dramatization for a long time.

So when the Pentagon investigators who were part of the plumbers discovered what this yeoman had been up to and that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had been presiding over aspiring against the civilian leaders in the White House,

That individual, W. Donald Stewart, proclaimed, this is a Seven Days in May.

Seven Days in May was the name of a novel during the Cold War in 1962 made into a movie, very well-regarded film, two years later.

And the plot was about the top military brass plunderers.

plotting to overthrow the President of the United States because he was pursuing peace accords with the Soviet Union, as Nixon and Kissinger were.

So these concerns date back even beyond that, probably to President Eisenhower's farewell address when he warned about the malign influence of a military-industrial complex.

So it doesn't surprise me that we would have seen similar themes in House of Cards.

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