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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! C-SPAN showed the 1969 inauguration speech of Richard Nixon, courtesy of the Senate Recording Studio.

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 ...