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Congress built a system 50 years ago to prevent another Nixon. Trump seems determined to dismantle those rules.
Scandal in the 1970s ignited demands to ban private donations and protect democracy from secret money and corruption. Bold ...
CNN host Jake Tapper said during an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday that the cover-up of former President Joe Biden's decline was "worse" than the Watergate scandal during Richard Nixon's ...
On June 23, 1972, less than a week after the arrest of the Watergate burglars at Democratic National Headquarters, Nixon directed his Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to call the director and deputy ...
No one has tested the post-Watergate system more than Trump – the only former president to be convicted of crimes (in his hush money case in New York) and the only one to face criminal ...
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the birthright citizenship case enhances presidential power at the expense of the ...
James McCord was later convicted for his role in the Watergate burglary. Bettmann Archive. Three days before his scheduled sentencing, on March 21, 1973, he submitted a letter to federal Judge ...
Testifying before the Watergate Committee on Oct. 3, 1973, he admitted that he had undertaken “political tricks” and espionage on behalf of Nixon’s campaign, including creating fake ...
Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles ...