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  1. As White House counsel under Nixon from 1970 to 1973, John Dean was a key figure in the Watergate saga—participating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history. "The American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump,” Dean, stated in an interview “He is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested.” Dean was not only convinced that Trump would be worse than Nixon in virtually every way—he thinks he’ll probably get away with it. Dean’s take on Trump is shaped in large part by his years in the Nixon White House. In Trump, Dean says he has observed many of his former boss’s most dangerous traits—obsessive vengefulness, reflexive dishonesty, all-consuming ambition—but none of Nixon’s redeeming qualities. "I used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon, where I’d see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,” Dean recalled. “He’d say, ‘This is something I can’t say out loud...’ or, ‘That is something the president can’t do.’” To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean unmolested by any such struggle. “I don’t think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.” "Trump's is making the long nightmare of Nixon's Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream," Dean tweeted just before the midterm elections. "History will treat Nixon's moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump's sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior. Nixon=corrupt; Trump=evil," he added.
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