Forty-nine years ago today, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Nixon announced his decision the previous night in a televised address, and then left the White House the following day when the ...

Richard Nixon poses with his family and their dog, Checkers, in Washington, D.C., in September 1952. Bettmann/Contributor Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ...

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...

For a historical pointer to our current era — special counsels, political scandals potentially verging into criminality, congressional investigations, popular disillusionment — it’s hard to beat the ...

Ohio University professor Mattson (When America Was Great) looks back at Nixon as a whistle-stop “political salesman” in this panoramic exploration of egghead politics, Hollywood films, television ...

President Bush travels to Kansas State University Monday to give a speech defending his administration's policy on Iraq. Bush's speech has many parallels to one given by President Richard Nixon on the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin‘s announcement that she was bowing out of Alaska ...