President Richard M. Nixon sought to fire the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation, but his attorney ...
In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...
Former President Richard Nixon first said "The professors are the enemy" during a 1972 conversation with his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. Vance quoted Nixon's words during a 2021 speech ...
Any other time in American history the question of how to mark the 50th anniversary of the resignation of a disgraced president would be simple. There would be retrospectives on the rise and fall ...
Editor’s note: This article is one in a five-part series looking back on the life of one of Duke’s most infamous alumni — Richard Nixon. Read the previous installments on Nixon’s childhood ...
The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.
Richard Nixon, according to a transcript of a White ... was an FBI summary of a wiretap on the Israeli Embassy in which Richard N. Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson, was overheard discussing ...
Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in California. He had a tough start in life. His parents’ lemon farm failed and two of his brothers died in childhood. He didn’t let any of that hold him back.
At the “Game of the Century,” when Arkansas and Texas faced off in 1969, President Richard Nixon decided to name the winner the national champion. The Razorbacks and Longhorns—who will renew ...
Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...