They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.

She actually, her image, she self-consciously mocks that lineage.

So that's happening?

Okay.

It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.

From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production

of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

December 21st, 1987, dear Donald, I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that

you were great on the Donahue show.

And as you can imagine, she is an expert on politics, and she predicts

that whenever you decide to run for office, you will be a winner.

With warm regard sincerely, Richard Nixon.

That's a letter from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump that the new president

said he was going to hang in the White House. It's not hard to find parallels between the two men,

particularly the hatred of the news media and the so-called elites. But maybe Nixon's blessing was

not such a good omen for Trump, because the new administration right

off the bat is engulfed by a scandal, inevitably nicknamed Rushagate. That's reminding a lot

of commentators of Nixon's Watergate. The New Yorkers Amy Davidson talked about those parallels

recently with one of Nixon's inner circle. John Dean was the White House counsel who advised Nixon,

but eventually testified against him in the Watergate hearings.

Since then, Dean has written extensively about politics and the presidency.

You've spent thousands of hours listening to and transcribing Nixon's secret White House recordings.

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