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 ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

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 ...

The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Federal Reserve chair, is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fought it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Half a century later, it welcomed an estimated crowd of 4,000 to see then-Vice President Richard Nixon speak during a rally for U.S. Rep. Clifford Case. This month it was listed for $6.325 million ...