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…ump Tower in November 2016 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) After his election in 1968, President Richard Nixon asked Robert Morgenthau, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to resign. Morgenthau refused to leave voluntarily, saying it degraded the office to treat it...

…mp Tower in November 2016 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) After his election in 1968, President Richard Nixon asked Robert Morgenthau, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to resign. Morgenthau refused to leave voluntarily, saying it degraded the office to treat it...

…lled for fines, the current fashion these days. They filed criminal charges against the executives responsible. Before Morgenthau, the Department of Justice focused on two-bit corporate misdeeds— Ponzi schemes and boiler room operations. Morgenthau changed that. His prosecutors...

…an what the age demands were then – and are now – a menace. The great 20 th Century theorist of political realism, Hans Morgenthau, once referred to nation states as “blind and potent monsters.” 73 He felt a sort of nervous evil as he studied the moves countries made on the stage...

…exchange and global interest rate manipulation to prosecutors working from the Justice Department’s headquarters. Like Morgenthau, Bharara was a prominent figure in the New York landscape, given to well-orchestrated press conferences and memorable sound bites. Like Morgenthau, h...

…w Wilson, eager to remain neutral in World War I, had resisted the calls of his ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau, to protest the killings of Armenians. Power castigates Wilson for refusing to “declare war on or even break off relations with the Ottoman Empire.”...

…efore you get in to the pace of your heart as you sleep, means the potent, network forces of our day are not “blind” as Morgenthau’s states were, but gifted with an exactness of vision. They see everything, always, more than we or our leaders do. They see it constantly. They neve...