Beware the Ides of July: Trump assassination attempt, Biden ends reelection campaign in wild month

It’s customary for me to write a piece this month titled "Beware the Ides of August." It’s a take on Shakespeare, where Julius Caesar is warned "Beware the Ides of March." The middle of March is what spells doom for Caesar. And over the years, I have found that the month of August – often the midway point – to be the most dramatic, historic and often volatile period in politics and government.

Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in August 1974. The U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.