History, Karl Marx observed, repeats itself — first as tragedy, then as farce. So it was fitting that on the 48th anniversary of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate-spurred resignation, Aug. 8, the Department of Justice should search former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, for his alleged failure to return documents belonging to the National Archives.
Read MoreCereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post bequeathed Mar-a-Lago to the National Park Service in 1973 in the hope it would become the Winter White House — which is what it did during President Donald J. Trump’s White House occupancy.