I was in the East Room of the White House on August 9, 1974, standing along the wall while Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, said farewell to the staff. After his maudlin and ...

The ’60s had to go out with a bang. Few years would top 1968, with its extremes of love and violence as the boomers clawed their way to dominance. If 1969, now half a century ago, was a period, it ...

Though recent years have accustomed us to political ironies, the idea of a Washington-Peking détente under the presidency of Richard M. Nixon strains the imagination. Could anything be more bizarre ...

SAIGON — Sights and sounds of the Nixons' visit to Vietnam: — Air Force One, the presidential jet liner, spent most of the afternoon in Cam Ranh Bay after depositing the Nixon party at Saigon's Tan ...

Berlin, Germany, Feb. 27, 1969: A group of women wave at President Richard Nixon’s motorcade from the balcony of an apartment building. Berliners came out in droves to welcome the U.S. president, ...

Read the full text of President Nixon's first inaugural address, given Jan. 20, 1969: Sen. Dirksen, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Vice President, President Johnson, Vice President Humphrey, my fellow ...