Exactly why Nixon decided to leave his law career behind and enter the political ring is unclear, though his long-held desire ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a ...

After serving as President Dwight Eisenhower's right-hand man for eight years, Nixon faced an uphill battle to the presidency ...

Former Republican insider David Frum this week argued that there are striking similarities between President-elect Donald Trump and former President Richard Nixon. However, Frum also believes that ...

President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard Nixon. The speech ...

This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard Nixon, a moderately conservative Republican who was a critic of government intervention in the economy.

President Richard Nixon used the government as a weapon against his perceived ... The top name on an early draft of Nixon’s enemies list was a Republican who worked in the Nixon White House on Henry ...

For example, after Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 ... His latest book is titled “Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism.” ...

Specifically, as a new play premiering Friday at Hamtramck’s Planet Ant Theatre asks, what if Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate in that extremely close election, had stepped in to help ...