Pick one:
- Compare and contrast Watergate with either the first or second impeachment of Trump. What are the factual, legal, and political similarities and differences?
- 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.
- 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.
- Analyze a dramatic (not documentary) movie or TV show in which Nixon was a substantial character or subject. What was the point of the characterization? How accurate was it? Did it offer insight into Nixon, make a misleading impression, or both?
- 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, Friday, May 7. I reserve the right to dock papers one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.
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