Opinion: Nixon’s Watergate Slush Fund Was From Donors. Trump Is Using Our Money

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty It seemed inconceivable when Richard Nixon won a historic presidential election victory in 1972 that his own Republican Party would turn on him two years later and drive him from office. There was the subsequent Watergate break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters, of course, and the discovery that the president bugged the Oval Office. But it was Nixon’s secret $700,000 slush fund that was the final nail in the coffin. He used this money from rich friends— including $100,000 from reclusive millionaire Howard Hughes—to pay for the dirty tricks exposed by legendary Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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