In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...

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

The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Fed Chair is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, ...

Former President Richard Nixon first said "The professors are the enemy" during a 1972 conversation with his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. Vance quoted Nixon's words during a 2021 speech ...

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

The US president may be making a political move that can be traced back to the 16th century and has been emulated by everyone ...

He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointed personality ... capable ...