An article by UVA Miller Center’s Ken Hughes in The Conversation reflects on Nixon’s efforts to mobilize against critics of his administration—including CERL Board Chair Morton Halperin, then-aide to Henry Kissinger in the National Security Council—amid Trump’s threats to retaliate against his own political enemies ahead of a second term.

Morton H. Halperin is the Chair of the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law.

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