Richard Nixon was one of the best-known American politicians of the 20 th century’s second half, and one of the most controversial. So how much do you know about the 37 th President on the occasion of ...

It was Aug. 15, 1971, and then-President Richard Nixon delivered an address to the nation to lay out a new economic approach for a country beset by economic worries and challenges to the US dollar. A ...

"In so many ways, I despised our 37th president, Richard M. Nixon. "Yet, if I could, with a wave of my hand I would bring ...

(Original Caption) Washington, DC. President Richard Nixon makes victory speech at a rally shortly after being elected to serve a second term by a landslide in the November 7th Presidential election.

When Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, the journalist Hugh Sidey wrote about him in LIFE: “He is not a candidate in the ordinary sense: he is a President-in-waiting.” Nixon’s confidence in his ...

On this day in 1974, former President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles ...

Richard Nixon is remembered as a ruthless politician driven at times by fear and hatred of his perceived enemies. But a new book suggests that Nixon's paranoia was based at least in part on his own ...

For the first time since the 1940s, Democrats will control all of the House seats representing Orange County, California. The county has long been a Republican stronghold — it's where Ronald Reagan ...

To the editor: I have a personal anecdote to add to Nicholas Goldberg’s column on his reevaluation of President Nixon. Years ago, I was surfing TV late at night and stumbled on Nixon being introduced ...

Richard Nixon was sworn in as president on January 20, 1969. His election came at time of great social and political upheaval in the US, which was mired in the Vietnam War. Nixon later became the ...

Editor’s Note: Tim Naftali, a CNN presidential historian and NYU clinical associate professor, was the first federal director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, (2007-2011). When ...

Hers are concise notes, funny and practical; his are lengthy, flowery and eager. “Somehow on Tuesday there was something electric in the usually almost stifling air in Whittier,” Richard Nixon wrote ...