Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at … ...

Richard Nixon (top row, far right) and John F. Kennedy (top row, second from right) as young congressmen. * * * One could say Nixon lost the presidency because of a limousine door.

U.S. President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon are seen as they visit the tombs of Chinese emperors of the Ming Dynasty, in the suburbs of China’s capital of Beijing, Feb. 24, 1972.

Richard Milhous Nixon, Law School ‘37, is the only U.S. president Duke has produced in its century. “Few came so far, so fast, so alone,” biographer John A. Farrell wrote about the man who ...