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VP Vance Blames Deep State, Not Nixon, for Resignation

6/29/2026

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance told the Nixon library that deep state, not Nixon’s crimes, ended the 37th president’s tenure, reviving an effort to downplay Watergate.
The piece links Vance’s remarks to Ronald Reagan, who dismissed the scandal as a witch-hunt, and notes that Nixon directed a bribery scheme warned by lawyer John Dean.
A series of books and documentaries recasting Watergate as a conspiratorial plot has shaped MAGA audiences.

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Story summary

U.S. Vice President JD Vance told the Nixon library that deep state, not Nixon’s crimes, ended the 37th president’s tenure, reviving an effort to downplay Watergate.
The piece links Vance’s remarks to Ronald Reagan, who dismissed the scandal as a witch-hunt, and notes that Nixon directed a bribery scheme warned by lawyer John Dean.
A series of books and documentaries recasting Watergate as a conspiratorial plot has shaped MAGA audiences.