Nixon escaped prison while political prisoners filled jails

Evidence

All those Americans were serving prison terms, many of them for their political acts and views, while the champion of law and order, Richard Nixon, did not spend a day in prison for the Watergate scandal. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1049

Categorization

• CANDY: A crisp, tweetable irony: the law-and-order champion never served a day.