Winston Churchill once said of politics that it’s ‘almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics — many times.’ Perhaps no one personified this dictum better than Richard Milhous Nixon.
From his election to Congress in 1946 to his resignation from the presidency in 1974, Nixon had been written off time and again.
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