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I was researching a column on the connection between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon when the news broke, Daniel Ellsberg had died at the age of ninety-two. The report was not a surprise. In March, Ellsberg had announced that he had been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. He had been, in recent weeks, giving a series of interviews recapping the tumultuous events that made his name a household word in the 1970s and warning that those events continue to have relevance today.

Ellsberg’s words ring true. The case of Daniel Ellsberg prompted actions by Richard Nixon which triggered events eerily like the actions of Donald Trump and the events they have triggered today. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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