Following his resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon boarded Army One on the south lawn of the White House the next morning for the first leg of his trip back to California, where he would live in political exile for the rest of his life.

That was the price he paid for orchestrating the third-rate burglary of the Democrat National Headquarters at the Watergate Complex. Despite his criminal conduct, however, at least a third of the electorate thought that he should stick around. The same holds true for President Trump. Apart from making Nixon look like an Eagle Scout, Trump enjoys at least that same level of support from voters who possess a high tolerance for his misconduct in office and will not be dissuaded from voting for him, even if (as he once claimed) he were to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue.

This is why voters disenchanted with Trump's four year Lie-a-Thon and mismanagement of COVID-19 need to turn out in droves on Nov. 3 and provide him with a one-way ticket back to Mar-a-Lago. He can then live happily ever after entertaining his Russian friends and cheating at golf; provided, of course, he is not indicted and convicted by the Southern District Court of New York for tax evasion and insurance fraud.

Jack Welch

Ledyard