At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it ...

One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old ...

Sammy Davis Jr.'s famous and rapturous 1972 hug of President Richard Nixon apparently didn't do much to change the 37th president's ... When you have a black and a white, or a rape. I just ...

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying,” Ehrlichman continued.

For one, in the razor-thin election of 1960, Nixon had won 32 percent of the black vote, and the Republican Party initially projected winning about that much in 1968, as Leah Wright Rigueur notes ...

Richard Nixon was like many a Millennial (or middle-aged politician) who's gotten busted for sending racy emails or sexts — even though he knew everything he was saying would ...

That year, they collaborated in an effort to help Nixon win over Black voters and the 1968 presidential election, writes Shaun Assael for Politico.. It was April 9, 1968. The two had just attended ...

During Nixon’s first term, the budget for enforcing civil rights increased to nearly 35 times its original amount; by 1972, the proportion of Black children attending segregated schools in the ...