Forty-nine years ago today, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Nixon announced his decision the previous night in a televised address, and then left the White House the following day when the ...

Richard Nixon poses with his family and their dog, Checkers, in Washington, D.C., in September 1952. Bettmann/Contributor Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ...

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...

It wasn’t quite on the level of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech or John F. Kennedy’s moon speech, but Friday does mark a significant anniversary for what a 1999 poll of leading ...

Ohio University professor Mattson (When America Was Great) looks back at Nixon as a whistle-stop “political salesman” in this panoramic exploration of egghead politics, Hollywood films, television ...

“What I am going to do — and this is unprecedented in the history of American politics — is give to this television and radio audience a complete financial history. Everything I’ve earned, everything ...

President Bush travels to Kansas State University Monday to give a speech defending his administration's policy on Iraq. Bush's speech has many parallels to one given by President Richard Nixon on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Nixon poses with his family and their dog, Checkers, in Washington, D.C., in September 1952. Bettmann/Contributor Twenty ...

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...

“What I am going to do — and this is unprecedented in the history of American politics — is give to this television and radio audience a complete financial history. Everything I’ve earned, everything ...