As the Watergate scandal enveloped President Nixon, he was buoyed by a secret "for his eyes only" message of moral support and encouragement from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, according to newly released State Department documents.
After agreeing to sign with Cleveland, Trot Nixon turned an important task over to his 5-year-old son.
President Nixon, in his first year in office and eager to end an unpopular war that killed tens of thousands of U.S. troops, considered using nuclear weapons against the North Vietnamese, recently declassified documents show.
The White House was eager to protect its ability to gather foreign intelligence. Congress was eager to rein in executive power. What sounds like a new debate over the president's ability to eavesdrop without warrants occurred 30 years ago.
Arthur Bremer, the man who stalked President Richard M. Nixon before shooting and paralyzing Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in 1972, was released from a Maryland prison today, with 17 years shaved off his sentence.
Meanwhile, Bush reached an unwelcome record. By 64%-31%, Americans disapprove of the job he is doing. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they "strongly disapprove" of the president.
Sixty-four percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing, and for "the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they 'strongly disapprove' of the president.
Those of us on the right have long enjoyed the varied skewerings of P.J.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — For more than 25 years, Ghazi Hamad has been a reliable champion for Hamas and its hard-line Islamist ideology, first as a leader of Palestinian street protests, then as an editor of a pro-Hamas newspaper and most recently as the chief spokesman for deposed …
As the Watergate scandal enveloped U.S. President Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974, he was buoyed by a secret message of moral support from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, according to newly released U.S. State Department documents.
Dick Cheney's craziness used to influence foreign policy. Now it is foreign policy.
Dick Cheney's craziness used to influence foreign policy. Now it is foreign policy.
For some people, sleeping in a presidential bedroom is the thrill of a lifetime. But in the Washington area, the experience can last a lifetime.
In 1974 the Watergate scandal legally ended when President Gerald Ford gave recently resigned former President Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
Haven't heard a good "Bush = Nixon" rant in a while.
This is a report from the CBS evening News aired January 18, 1972, about the Nixon presidential campaign. Fast forward to 3:50 for a sound bite from a very groovy looking young G.O.P College Director named Karl Rove. Check out the @!$%#in' hair!
The GOP would foment distrust when our various peoples might have put the Civil War behind them and moved forward. The GOP would wage war on labor as well as "the nattering nabobs of negativity", Spiro Agnew's code word for academics and free thinkers.
The precedent, as is so often in this administration, is Nixonian.
Looking back what do you think of it all? Was it the low point in history some say?
Have you ever wondered why America ended up with the awful system it has for dealing with drugs instead of the more moderate and effective systems used in places like the Netherlands? Here are five unscrupulous guys -- hucksters and opportunists, all of them -- who played a centr …
The Gauntlet laid down for Gordon Brown: Some 250,000 of the returning allied forces from the first Gulf War in 1991 (15 per cent) went down with illness that they insist was related to their service in that war. Of these, 10,000 are already dead.
There's going to be a revolution. Everyone can sense it. But really there's already been a revolution. This revolution, however, is not one the American people ever supported.
Snow, who accused the Democrats of indulging in cheap political theater, also showed a graphic claiming that a stack of the papers the White House had given Congress in the case would reach twice the height of the White House.
Once the political maneuvers and partisan spin are stripped away from the Libby Commutation story what remains is a dull and uneventful piece of Constitutional Law. The President's power to pardon and commute is nearly limitless.
C-SPAN's Historical Presidential rankings which my political science teachers have used as a pretty acurate historical perspective of how presidents have ranked.
In the nineteen-twenties, Alfred Sloan, the president of General Motors, insisted that the company could not make windshields with safety glass because doing so would harm the bottom line.
Will it ever stop? Years after his death, President Richard Nixon's secrets keep rising from the archives—as the latest batch did just last week.
The National Archives recently released 78,000 pages of documents from the Nixon Administration. Among these documents was a letter from a then 22-year old Karl Rove detailing his plans for the College Republicans, a group he hoped to chair.
The raw material of history is sometimes VERY raw. Taking a congratulatory call from Henry Kissinger, then the National Security Adviser, Nixon says, "You know, this fellow (McGovern) to the last was a prick. Did you see his concession statement?"