#1250 - Michael Koncewicz

Michael Koncewicz is a political historian who is the Michael Nash Research Scholar at the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, one of the more renowned archives that focus on the history of labor and the left. He previously worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, contributing to the museum’s nonpartisan Watergate exhibit. Koncewicz’s first book, They Said ‘No’ to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power, was published in 2018. Culling from previously unpublished excerpts from the tapes and recently released materials that expose the thirty-seventh president’s uncensored views, the book reveals how Republican party members remained loyal civil servants in the face of Nixon’s attempts to expand the imperial presidency.