Supreme Court poised to revive key feature of Nixon

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A largely forgotten chapter of the Watergate scandal connected two fixtures of American life: milk and political sleaze. The dairy industry sought a deal with President Richard Nixon to write a huge campaign check to his reelection campaign—in exchange for price supports that would artificially raise the cost of milk. But federal law strictly limited the amount it could donate. So Nixon’s henchmen devised a workaround: Dairy companies would funnel $2 million through various Republican Party committees, which could then transfer the cash to Nixon’s campaign. This scheme worked as intended . The companies cut their checks, and the president overruled his own secr