The day Nixon resigned, The Boston Globe placed a replica of the Preamble to the Constitution (“We the people…”) under the newspaper’s masthead. The implicit notion: The system works.

I still love the sight of a 72-point headline across the front page: “Nixon resigns ... The Express-Times is living on as an online news publication, but it’s not the same.

“This opportunity for me is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to give back to the state that’s given me so much,” Nixon told The Maui News in January. “I know to hear that sounds like flu ...