| | Nixon's ability to raise unlimited funds for his Presidential Library, as the law allowed, coupled with the abuses the country just witnessed through his Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), were frightening. Funds raised by his campaign were rechanneled to private sleuths to harass opponents. [[Hillary Clinton]]<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref><ref>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/woodward-and-bernstein-cant-stop-comparing-clinton-nixon </ref> served on the staff of the House Impeachment panel investigating Nixon's abuses. | | Nixon's ability to raise unlimited funds for his Presidential Library, as the law allowed, coupled with the abuses the country just witnessed through his Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), were frightening. Funds raised by his campaign were rechanneled to private sleuths to harass opponents. [[Hillary Clinton]]<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref><ref>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/woodward-and-bernstein-cant-stop-comparing-clinton-nixon </ref> served on the staff of the House Impeachment panel investigating Nixon's abuses. |
| − | It was an exciting time for the 26 year old intern. No one since the founding of the Republic was privy to the private conversations of a president in the [[Oval Office]] with subordinates making decisions in the midst of grave international, domestic, and political crises.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H78s9ZbLXCIC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22windowless+room,+trying+to+make+sense+of+the+words+and+to+glean+their+context+and+meaning%22&source=bl&ots=o3nUmlrdPk&sig=hOD7BvlnXjK9pRASsqWyqUxWyx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI9syUu6PNAhUX5WMKHUYlDgkQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=%22windowless%20room%2C%20trying%20to%20make%20sense%20of%20the%20words%20and%20to%20glean%20their%20context%20and%20meaning%22&f=false Living History], Hillary Clinton, Simon and Schuster, 2004, p.68.</ref><ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref>
| + | She learned the rules from Nixon,<ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton How Richard Nixon Created Hillary Clinton], Sam Tanenhaus, Nov 5, 2015. bloomberg.com</ref> gaining an unprecendented insight into a high government officials daily communication.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H78s9ZbLXCIC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22windowless+room,+trying+to+make+sense+of+the+words+and+to+glean+their+context+and+meaning%22&source=bl&ots=o3nUmlrdPk&sig=hOD7BvlnXjK9pRASsqWyqUxWyx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI9syUu6PNAhUX5WMKHUYlDgkQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=%22windowless%20room%2C%20trying%20to%20make%20sense%20of%20the%20words%20and%20to%20glean%20their%20context%20and%20meaning%22&f=false Living History], Hillary Clinton, Simon and Schuster, 2004, p.68.</ref><ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref> |
| | After Nixon's resignation several Watergate reform laws came into existence. Hillary Clinton, fresh out of law school played a part in the removal of Nixon from office and the creation of these reform laws: | | After Nixon's resignation several Watergate reform laws came into existence. Hillary Clinton, fresh out of law school played a part in the removal of Nixon from office and the creation of these reform laws: |