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.

Richard Fontaine is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as president of CNAS from 2012–19 and as senior fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was ...

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One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

triumph and preparation anew—all that was behind Richard Milhous Nixon. Now, at 56, atop the citadel of power, he was ready to stand before the thousands in the Capitol Plaza and millions ...

Anthony Hopkins was well into his fifties when he became a Hollywood leading man, especially when he won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. But ...

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President Richard M. Nixon: “I, Richard Milhous Nixon, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability ...

Milhouse was named after Richard Milhouse Nixon, because Matt Groenig felt you couldn’t get a more pathetic person to be named after. (Today there is even a more pathetic person to name a ...

There is a vacuum in the nation’s leadership, and once Richard Milhous Nixon takes the oath of office next week to become the 37th President of the U.S., there will not be much time before he ...

The New Yorker will reach 100. Yet here’s an anniversary fewer will mark and no one will celebrate: Soon, we will have been without Richard Pryor for two decades. He died in 2005, and as the New ...

Whatever else his next four years in power bring, it won’t conform to ideological type. Somewhere out there, the spirit of Richard Milhous Nixon is smiling.