Exactly why Nixon decided to leave his law career behind and enter the political ring is unclear, though his long-held desire ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a ...

After serving as President Dwight Eisenhower's right-hand man for eight years, Nixon faced an uphill battle to the presidency ...

Bush had tapped Christine Todd Whitman, a relatively moderate Northeastern Republican ... like the one that reelected Richard Nixon in 1972, is less internally coherent than the one George ...

Twenty years earlier, after a much closer race, Republican Richard Nixon clasped John F. Kennedy’s hand and offered the new Democratic president a word of encouragement. The U.S. has a long ...

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I miss Richard Nixon. He was a detestable bigot and despite his own protestations, a crook. The great Hunter S. Thompson wrote at his death, he was “a ...

Twenty years earlier, after a much closer race, Republican Richard Nixon clasped John F. Kennedy's hand and offered the new Democratic president a word of encouragement. The U.S. has a long ...

Twenty years earlier, after a much closer race, Republican Richard Nixon clasped John F. Kennedy’s hand and offered the new Democratic president a word of encouragement. The U.S. has a long ...