At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it ...

NY GOP Chair Ed Cox said his father-in-law Richard Nixon was politically persecuted like Trump. Christopher Sadowski “[Trump’s] two impeachments — certainly with lawfare,” said Cox, who ...

Donald Trump’s call for national unity after months of vowing vengeance recalls GOP presidential campaign rebranding in earlier turbulent eras. 2024’s “New Trump” is like 1968’s “New ...

The board was right on the money four years later when it questioned 1968 GOP nominee Richard Nixon’s choice of obscure Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew as his running mate. Worried about the line of ...

WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very ...

Richard Nixon meeting with Duke officials on the campaign trail at a Greensboro event in 1960. Regardless, Nixon would easily win the Republican nomination for the 1960 presidential election with ...

Richard Nixon (third from right) and other Republican candidates filing their papers to run for U.S. Congress in 1946. “Real Quakers look at men with a level eye,” one former classmate said ...

Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund to cover expenses, and doubts ...

In fact, the last time a president attempted to quell runaway inflation was in the early 1970s when Richard Nixon — a Republican — imposed temporary ceilings on food and gas prices.

Libraries and archives at universities across the nation catalog and steward the donated papers of members of Congress. But ...

President Richard Nixon authorized the Watergate break-in and then covered it up. When his actions became known, Republican Congressional leaders went to the White House and asked Nixon to resign.

The condition was dire. Republican Congressman John Rhodes said, "Impeachment is really a foregone conclusion." Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., center, speaks to reporters after meeting with ...