Richard Nixon

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.

We often forget that Nixon took decidely liberal stances on welfare, healthcare, and universal basic income.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and their White House church services.

An Oval Office photograph captured the bizarre encounter between the king of rock and roll and the president.

Trump is reviving a controversial budget tactic, putting a Nixon-era fight over presidential power and congressional authority back in the headlines.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation.

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

Using evidence to remind us.

The legacy of Nixon's strategic ambiguity of acknowledging China's claim to Taiwan without fully committing.

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

The first time a president withheld funds for something approved by Congress, it led to the Impoundment Control Act. We’ll soon find out if that law has teeth.

Presidents can't shutter an agency Congress created by statute. Only Congress has this power.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

Kissinger warned: “This is no issue to face the world on. It looks like pure colonialism.”

It is hard not to figure the 1968 election as inaugurating the cultural and political polarisation of the American electorate so evident today.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.