Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On August 5, 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon admitted ordering the Watergate investigation halted six days after the break-in.

Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation following the Watergate scandal. This week American History TV has been playing programming related to Watergate and the ...

With his resignation soon to take effect, Richard Nixon leaves the White House one last time as he boards Army One on Aug. 9, 1974. Bettmann Archive On April 29, 1974, President Richard Nixon ...

Henry S. Richardson ’77 was spending his weekend rock climbing in New York when his father, the United States Attorney General, quit his job. It was Oct. 20, 1973, and Richard Nixon had just asked ...

In his 37th address from the Oval Office, the 37th president of the United States spoke words never said by an American president. “I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow,” Richard ...

If the new Supreme Court decision, Trump v. U.S., had applied back in 1974, could President Richard Nixon have been prosecuted for Watergate? Or, would this decision shield Nixon from criminal charges ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1565, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the continental United States was founded on the site of the present St. Augustine, Fla. In ...

Nixon resigned amid Watergate scandal. — -- President Richard Nixon resigned 40 years ago today, saying during his announcement that it would begin "that process of healing which is so ...

Although grown-ups are supposed to shield children from scandal, my parents didn’t bother sending me out of the room as news of the Watergate cover-up forced President Richard Nixon from office 50 ...

A former U.S attorney general said the federal cases involving former President Donald Trump should be fast-tracked in the courts like key decisions involving President Richard Nixon were. Eric Holder ...