In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...
That is, until February 16th, when the Washington Post revealed that Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer associated ...
For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey were nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a ...
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.
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 ...
Welcome to February 17, a date that has witnessed some remarkable events throughout history!Moving back in time, we find ...
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.
Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general ...
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 ...
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 ...
Richard M. Nixon lost the election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy by a small margin of 112,000 popular votes. When Nixon ran again in 1968, he cast himself as representing a “Great Silent Majority,” a ...