The Absolute Best Way To Reflect On Nixon’s Resignation
August 8, 2015

On this anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, let's remember one great -- but too often overlooked -- Lesbian African-American House Representative from Texas who steered us through a Constitutional crisis 41 years ago with logic and passion.

Check out Barbara Jordan's brief but prescient remarks to the House Judiciary Committee at the beginning of the Nixon impeachment hearings:

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