On July 25, 1969, Richard Nixon told reporters on Guam that Asian allies would have to fight their own wars — America would arm and back them, not bleed for them. It wasn't a formal speech. It became ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Nixon was sworn in as the 37th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 1969, on a pledge to achieve "peace with honor" and end the Vietnam war. He found it a difficult pledge to keep, even ...

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 ...

The moon landing was real. The photo of the phone President Richard Nixon used to call the astronauts belies the technology used to make that communication happen. See the sources for this fact-check ...

On the surface, Nixon's early months offered few clues to the foreign policy strides that would register in history or to the dark scheming that would destroy his presidency. He visited Europe for ...

This photograph was tucked away in the Salisbury Post files related to the late Congressman Earl Ruth. It’s an official White House photograph dated Dec. 9, 1969. that’s Ruth on the right, and the man ...