Watergate scandal

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.

President Ford’s unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon created political controversy. It also tarnished Ford’s own reputation with the American public.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

And history says they have a reason to be.

For Nixon stalwarts on the House Judiciary Committee, defending the President became an inalterable epitaph.

In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?

In an effort to open Congress, they institutionalized a confrontational style that permeates contemporary politics today.

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.