The contest over Nixon’s legacy has heated up once again due to the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, which fell on June 17 - coinciding with the House’s inquiry into the January 6 riots and Trump’s unsuccessful attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Today, though, Byron’s job is trickier than ever - thanks in large part to Donald Trump. Sifting through the ash heap of history for contemporary lessons is a challenging task under the best of circumstances, but it is particularly difficult in the case of Nixon, whose heap is larger - and more politically radioactive - than most. Now, this 29-year-old, who was born in 1993, the year before Nixon died, is the unofficial custodian of the 37th president’s legacy, responsible for applying the “vision of President Richard Nixon to defining issues that face our nation and the world today,” as the foundation’s mission specifies.
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