What’s something you miss from the old days? Privacy has been the heavy price paid for technological innovation and advancement. The political class is too cowardly to deal with this problem.
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Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever By David Remnick Editor
Two generations ago, in the fall of 1974, President Gerald Ford and the Republican Party approached the midterm elections with considerable dread. That August, Richard Nixon had learned that he could no longer outrun his crimes in the White House. One tape recording in particular, the so-called smoking gun, proved that he had conspired with his aide H. R. Haldeman to obstruct the investigation into the Watergate break-in. The Republican elders Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, and Hugh Scott told Nixon that impeachment in the House of Representatives was now certain, and conviction in the Senate likely. Nixon resigned, handing over his office to Vice-President Ford. A month later, Ford issued Proclamation 4311, pardoning Nixon for any crimes that he might have committed as President. Watergate, Ford said, had been “an American tragedy, in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must.”
Awo’s 1966 Prison Letter: The Job Application Written in Chains by Lawson Akhigbe
On 28 March 1966, while the rest of Nigeria was still adjusting to the strange new reality of soldiers in charge, Chief Obafemi Awolowo sat in Calabar Prison and wrote what must rank as one of the most elegant job applications in Nigerian history. It was addressed to Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, the man who had just inherited a broken country, and it asked, with exquisite politeness, for a free pardon.
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO’S LETTER FROM PRISON
Before I go further, I would like to stress that the reasons which I advance in support of this petition, in my own behalf, basically hold good for my said colleagues. For they share the same political beliefs with me, and have intense and unquenchable loyalty for the ideals espoused by the Party which I have the honour to lead
By Being Hard
How do you stay resilient in hard times? Come the moment come the man
