Cybersecurity
Richard Nixon Suddenly Emerges as Hot Political Name in Campaign
- Pence rips Clinton as ‘most dishonest’ since disgraced leader
- Kaine compares Trump’s boosting of cyberattack to Watergate
Richard Nixon flashes the victory sign in 1968.
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The 37th U.S. president, who resigned from office in disgrace in 1974 and died more than 20 years ago, is re-emerging in this election as the rival presidential campaigns invoke memories of the Richard Nixon era.
Tim Kaine, running mate of Democrat Hillary Clinton, said Sunday that Donald Trump’s recent encouragement of anti-U.S. hacking by Russia echoed the Watergate break-in and cover-up. Trump’s vice presidential-candidate, Mike Pence, labeled Clinton “the most dishonest candidate for president of the United States since Richard Nixon.”