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“You’ve got to resign,” then-Sen. Hugh Scott (Pa.), the GOP minority leader, told the Republican president, according to Leahy’s notes.
Nixon did just that three months before the historic 1974 midterm elections that swept dozens of young Democrats into power, including then-34-year-old Leahy.
He never imagined that 47 years later, after a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol designed to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, he would watch as dozens of Senate Republicans took the opposite path.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/14/patrick-leahy-senate-legacy/
Nixon did just that three months before the historic 1974 midterm elections that swept dozens of young Democrats into power, including then-34-year-old Leahy.
He never imagined that 47 years later, after a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol designed to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, he would watch as dozens of Senate Republicans took the opposite path.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/14/patrick-leahy-senate-legacy/