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I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. You will all receive invitations to post to the blog. I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

· To post questions or comments;

· To follow up on class discussions;

· To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

Statement on viewpoint diversity: https://heterodoxacademy.org/teaching-heterodoxy-syllabus-language/


Syllabus: https://gov124.blogspot.com/2022/08/cases-in-american-political-leadership.html

Monday, April 22, 2019

Final Essay, Spring 2019

Pick one:
  1. In light of the Mueller report, there is talk of possible impeachment. Compare and contrast Watergate with the Trump controversy. What are the factual, legal, and political similarities and differences? What can Trump learn from Nixon? And what can the House Democrats of 2019 learn from the House Democrats of 1974?
  2. Choose any substantial post-presidential speech, article or book chapter by Nixon.  What was he trying to accomplish?  Did he accurately portray the record?  In your answer, give careful consideration to his long effort at rehabilitation.
  3. Go to The American Presidency Project and search what one of Nixon's successors said about him in public.  (You may find that Democrats tended to say more.)  Explain this president's discussions of Nixon.  In your answer, consider the president's political environment.
  4. Hoff says that "Watergate has proved more a palliative or placebo than a genuine cure for the weaknesses within the American political system."  Do you agree or disagree?  Explain.
  • Essays should be typed (12-point), double-spaced, and no more than four pages long. I will not read past the fourth page. 
  • Submit papers as Word documents, not pdfs.
  • Cite your sources. Use Turabian/Chicago endnotes. 
  • Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you. Return essays to the Sakai dropbox by 11:59 PM, Tuesday, May 7. Papers will drop one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.  

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