Their walkie-talkies crackled with updates from the burglary team throughout the night. Hunt, a former CIA operative, shouted ...

The political and financial risks of the 1970s are back in the White House, Edward Price writes in a guest commentary.

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 ...

The 25th Amendment allowed President Nixon to appoint Gerald Ford to fill a vacancy in the vice presidency, ensuring that Nixon’s resignation would result in Ford taking over the White House,… ...

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. For many, he is mostly remembered as the only president to ever resign the office. No doubt, Watergate endures as a scar on ...

But Nixon was no longer the president. Earlier that day, the Republican became the first and only president to resign from office.

The resignation of Richard Nixon was the culmination of two years of swirling controversy that began with a burglary at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in June 1972.

On Aug. 8, the front page of the Deseret News shared the news. Nixon would meet with Ford, speak to the nation via a TV broadcast, and then resign. The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 8, 1974.

Nixon's resignation was the culmination of the Watergate scandal. But Watergate involved much more abuse of power than just the break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters.

On Aug. 8, the front page of the Deseret News shared the news. Nixon would meet with Ford, speak to the nation via a TV broadcast, and then resign. The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 8, 1974.

I don’t leave. A big difference. I don’t leave.” American politician Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) at the White House with his family after his resignation as President, 9th August 1974.