The legal problems currently facing President Donald Trump are unlike any other White House controversy we’ve seen before. Because the closest analogy would be the Watergate break-in and cover-up that eventually led to President Richard Nixon‘s resignation, it’s only natural to look to that period for insights here.

The true hero in that historical scar on American politics was Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who famously put is patriotism before partisanship and led the Republican party to hold Nixon, also a Republican, accountable for his crimes. Read on…