Former President Richard Nixon made history on Aug. 9, 1975, when he became the first and only United States president to resign. His legacy has been complicated since then, marked by alternating ...

On July 25, 1969, the Nixon Doctrine was announced, and along with it, the expectation for America’s Asian allies to become responsible for their own military defense. During his campaign, Nixon ...

American political and broadcast history unfolded on this day in history, Sept. 26, 1960, as Vice President Richard Nixon, a California Republican, and Sen. John F. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, ...

Here is the third article in a series named “The Closest Calls,” where author and journalist Jeff Greenfield looks at the most narrowly decided presidential elections and explores how small changes in ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with historian and Slate contributor David Greenberg about his new book, Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. Greenburg's book is more than a biography of Nixon — it ...

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Woodstein for our purposes) now claim, in a Washington Post piece, that President Nixon was “far worse than we thought,” and accuse him of conducting five “wars”: ...

Why just read about history when you can shake hands with it? This Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 17, the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda offered the chance to meet some of ...