On Nov. 23, 1969, Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S.D., suffered a paralytic stroke at age 68 that hospitalized him and kept him from the ...

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 ...

The draft remains filed away in the National Archives as an eerie reminder of what could have been.

July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 18th year in a row, you ...

It’s not every day that you see the would-be frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination extolling the virtues of Richard Nixon and downplaying his corruption. But there was Vice President ...

The 37th president’s foundation has posted a slew of slickly edited videos aiming to make the late disgraced POTUS seem cool. It appears to be working. By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors ...

Richard Nixon throws up his hands in exasperation as he addresses the press: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook,” he says in the 1973 clip. “Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve ...

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On August 3, 1970, prosecutors in Los Angeles were in the second week of presenting their murder case against Charles Manson and three young women accused of killing the actress Sharon Tate and six ...

When fire destroyed San Francisco’s American Indian Center in 1969, activists didn’t just rebuild. They seized an entire island. For 19 months, Native Americans occupied Alcatraz prison, creating ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at Monday's inauguration, at which Carrie Underwood will also perform “America the ...