{"id":376321,"date":"2026-06-26T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:11:10","slug":"vice-president-jd-vance-says-its-crazy-watergate-led-to-a-presidents-downfall-during-a-speech-at-the-nixon-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376321\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance says it\u2019s \u2018crazy\u2019 Watergate led to a president\u2019s downfall during a speech at the Nixon Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

While speaking at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum<\/a> this week, Vice President JD Vance<\/a> seemingly downplayed the Watergate scandal that led to former President Richard Nixon\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. Like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy,\u201d said Vance, who told the crowd he had been joking about that backstage before his discussion at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vance, who was at the Nixon Library to promote his new memoir<\/a>, \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,\u201d compared himself to the former president. He also said that Nixon and President Donald Trump, during his first term in office, were both targeted by the \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung senator, vice president, writes some best-selling books, is hated by the media. It kind of sounds like JD Vance. I\u2019ve always liked Richard Nixon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m actually fascinated by Nixon as a character in history. I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, but I think deservedly so,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

The vice president\u2019s comment quickly garnered widespread media attention as well as criticism from Democrats.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mike Levin, D\u2013San Juan Capistrano, said Vance \u201cwants the bar that low\u201d because he \u201cworks for the most corrupt president in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVance is telling us a president can break the law, lie about it, and turn federal agencies into weapons, and we should all just go along with it,\u201d Levin said in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cWhen you serve an administration this corrupt, the only way to look clean is to convince the public that crimes no longer count.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic Reps. Jim McGovern<\/a> of Massachusetts, Raja Krishnamoorthi<\/a> of Illinois, Kelly Morrison<\/a> of Minnesota and Jamie Raskin<\/a> of Maryland, as well as U.S. Sen. Mark Warner<\/a> of Virginia, criticized Vance\u2019s remarks on social media also.<\/p>\n

Nixon resigned in 1974<\/a> over the Watergate scandal, two years after winning his reelection bid.<\/p>\n

The Nixon Library contains a Watergate exhibition that was created in 2011; the information documented in the exhibit is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While speaking at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum this week, Vice President JD Vance seemingly downplayed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,6500,100,11975,611,13,136,7537],"class_list":["post-376321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-jd-vance","tag-news","tag-nixon-library","tag-orange-county","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-yorba-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}