President Trump’s firing of the F.B.I. director, James Comey, drew immediate comparisons to Richard Nixon’s order to dismiss the special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in October 1973. This incident stirred up recollections of the Watergate scandal. The pressure for aggressive investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election was somewhat similar to the demands placed on House and Senate investigations into the 1972 Nixon presidential campaign.
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