This is the Plain Dealer's front page with the news of Richard Nixon's resignation at U.S. president in 1974.The last time someone who had been elected U.S. president was in as much trouble as Donald Trump was with his 34 felony convictions, the headline on the front page of The Plain Dealer was simple:The news on Aug. 9, 1974, was that the first president in U.S. history had resigned. It required the simple and emphatic headline it received.
Locally, when former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora was convicted in 2012 as the ringleader of a massive corruption ring that had decimated the county, our headline was even simpler. GUILTY. The jurors spoke loudly: guilty on every count. These are not partisans. These are not people with axes to grind. They participated in this nation’s time-tested system for examining facts at trial and made their call. That was the story.