It was Aug. 15, 1971, and then-President Richard Nixon delivered an address to the nation to lay out a new economic approach for a country beset by economic worries and challenges to the US dollar. A ...

"In so many ways, I despised our 37th president, Richard M. Nixon. "Yet, if I could, with a wave of my hand I would bring ...

WASHINGTON - Fifty years ago, newly installed President Gerald Ford simply got tired of questions about the legal fate of resigned predecessor Richard Nixon. So, on Sept. 8, 1974, Ford went ahead and ...

Nixon resigned amid Watergate scandal. — -- President Richard Nixon resigned 40 years ago today, saying during his announcement that it would begin "that process of healing which is so ...

Richard Nixon in front of an American flag - The White House/Getty Images Favorite breakfasts of American presidents have ranged from the sumptuous (Thomas Jefferson's coffee, muffins, cornbread, and ...

When Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, the journalist Hugh Sidey wrote about him in LIFE: “He is not a candidate in the ordinary sense: he is a President-in-waiting.” Nixon’s confidence in his ...

To the editor: I have a personal anecdote to add to Nicholas Goldberg’s column on his reevaluation of President Nixon. Years ago, I was surfing TV late at night and stumbled on Nixon being introduced ...

This story is part of NPR's series Journey Home. We're going to the places presidential candidates call home and finding out what those places tell us about how they see the world. Few presidential ...

Editor’s Note: Tim Naftali, a CNN presidential historian and NYU clinical associate professor, was the first federal director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, (2007-2011). When ...

For the first time since the 1940s, Democrats will control all of the House seats representing Orange County, California. The county has long been a Republican stronghold — it's where Ronald Reagan ...

Richard Nixon was sworn in as president on January 20, 1969. His election came at time of great social and political upheaval in the US, which was mired in the Vietnam War. Nixon later became the ...