History repeats itself: McCain-Hess donors vs. Nixon-Hess donors

Morton Mintz has an interesting post on the Harvard School of Journalism's Niemann Watchdog blog about the historical parallels between McCain and the Hess oil related donations and the efforts to hide Hess oil donations to Nixon's campaign.

It's not possible that the current Hess CEO is unaware of the illegal actions of his father in donating to the Nixon campaign. What's surprising is that he expects to repeat them and get away with it.

The other thing that impressed me about the post was Mr. Mintz's extensive quotation of Greg Sargent's investigative work on the Hess matter at TPM. Congratulations to Greg and TPM. Keep up the good work.