WASHINGTON - Fifty years ago, newly installed President Gerald Ford simply got tired of questions about the legal fate of resigned predecessor Richard Nixon. So, on Sept. 8, 1974, Ford went ahead and ...
This Christmas, as on many holidays and birthdays, one of my presents was another piece of Richard M. Nixon memorabilia to ...
WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very different ...
The House initiated an impeachment process against Nixon in February 1974, authorizing the Judiciary Committee to investigate whether grounds existed to impeach him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
(WDBJ) - President Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. He won re-election in a landslide in 1972 only for the “Watergate” ...
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 ...
Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told me, “Your memo is good.” But it was clear Nixon would never see my 11th-hour plea for him not to resign. It was Aug. 8, 1974, and ...
It was a shimmering spring day with wisps of cirrus clouds against azure Maxfield Parrish skies. Spokane was basking in its Salish name: Sp'q'n'i, "Children of the Sun." On May 4, 1974, provincial ...