Historian Compares Clinton to Nixon

On Thursday, Douglas Brinkley, author of “The Nixon Tapes: 1973,” joined Neil Cavuto to talk about similarities between Hillary Clinton and President Richard Nixon.

“Both Hillary Clinton and richard nixon like to keep things covered up,” noted Brinkley. He added that both are brilliant people who have a sense of entitlement to secrecy. “You don’t want to be called ‘Nixonian,’ but there are good things about it. Nixon was very brilliant. Hillary Clinton is very brilliant.” Both also seemed to feel entitled to secrecy with regard to Nixon’s tapes and Hillary’s emails, respectively—”that idea of kind of always feeling the privilege of keeping stuff that nobody else has.”