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Four decades after President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," the White House on Tuesday announced a shift in national drug policy that would treat illegal drug use more as a public health issue and plunge more resources into prevention and treatment.
Alaskans on Saturday mourned the loss of former Gov. Walter J. Hickel and remembered him as a visionary and a maverick.
It was a time of civil unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Beamon's record-smashing long jump, ‘Hey Jude’ topping the charts, and Richard Nixon winning a presidential election over Hubert Humphrey.
Jerald terHorst, who resigned as White House press secretary rather than defend President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, is dead at age 87.
The grandson of President Richard Nixon is among seven Republicans seeking the nomination to challenge an incumbent Democratic congressman on Long Island.
Richard Nixon never considered himself a great orator, a judgment shared by those who heard him speak. It turns out he had a case of Churchill envy.
In newly released papers from his presidency, Richard Nixon directs a purge of Kennedy-era modern art — "these little uglies" — orders hostile journalists to be frozen out and fusses over White House guest lists to make sure political opponents don't make it in.
British TV personality David Frost will be honored at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews with former President Richard Nixon and other newsmakers.
President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon's playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty.
It seems history won't rest until someone fills in that 18 1/2-minute Watergate gap.
A Manhattan lawyer who is Richard Nixon's son-in-law is the new leader of the New York Republicans.
A U.S. marshal who served former President Richard Nixon with two Watergate-related subpoenas at his California home has died.
Paul Newman liked to joke about his trademark blue eyes, musing that if they turned brown his career might be in jeopardy, and was delighted to learn he was on Richard Nixon's enemies list, the Academy Award-winning actor's daughter said Monday.
On April 9, 1971, President Richard Nixon conferred with aides on how to get Ted Kennedy followed, or "covered," in hopes of catching the senator doing something scandalous.
President Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch Kennedy cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to recruit Secret Service agents to spill secrets on the senator's behavior.
Two years before the coup that toppled the leftist leader of Chile, President Richard Nixon and Brazilian President Emilio Medici discussed coordinated intervention in that nation and Cuba, according to a newly declassified document.
Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91.
With an air of desperation, a hunkered down White House hatched a plan to save Richard Nixon's presidency as the Watergate crisis began to consume it: Demonize the prosecutor in the eyes of lawmakers and the people.
The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison said his group would not have risen to power in the 1970s if it weren't for the policies of former U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top diplomat, Henry Kissinger.
Even those who’ve never cracked open a comic book know “Watchmen” is on the way. The hype machine’s been in overdrive for the last year, helped by fan enthusiasm and a headline-grabbing court case that threatened its release. Now it’s nearly impossible to avoid the early reviews and raves for the film adaptation of what’s often called “the greatest graphic novel ever written.” For the cool kids in the comic book world, the story of the fight for justice in a climate of global fear is beyond reproach. “Watchmen” is worth the price of admission if only to witness an effort to faithfully bring those pages to the big screen.
Former IRS Commissioner Donald C. Alexander, who clashed with President Richard Nixon over attempts to use tax information against political enemies, has died. He was 87.
The women of "The View" yukked it up with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, mussed his often-mocked helmet of hair and asked him to do his impersonation of President Richard Nixon.
It promises to be a colorful Academy Awards season when films featuring Richard Nixon and Batman could go toe-to-toe for best picture.
For all the disclosures former President Richard Nixon makes in "Frost/Nixon," director Ron Howard has one of his own.
The Republicans have picked Tampa for their 2012 presidential convention.
Republicans choose Tampa as the site of their 2012 presidential convention, hoping the swing state of Florida will help them defeat President Barack Obama.
When former President Richard Nixon became paranoid that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had come under the control of Democrats and a "Jewish cabal," he ordered adviser Fred Malek to create a list of "important Jewish officials" within the bureau, several of whom were lat …
At a White House Mother's Day event, first lady Michelle Obama says having three generations of family living in the White House and raising her two daughters there has been a "beautiful experience."
Rep. David Obey, a leading liberal Democrat but a symbol of entrenched incumbency that's falling out of favor with discontented voters, said Wednesday he will retire at the end of his term this year
Rep. David Obey, a leading liberal Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term this year, dealing Democrats defending their majority another blow in an election season of voter discontent.
Forget liberal vs. conservative justices. The Supreme Court is way out of regional alignment: It's heavily tilted toward the Northeast corridor and could become even more so as President Barack Obama prepares to fill an upcoming vacancy.
A far right scree that explroes the idea that Democrat/Socialists in the "Big House" are keeping black Americans down and dirty.
Pollution before the first Earth Day was in your face: Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. The challenges to today are largely invisible - and therefore tougher to tackle.
Mourners paid respects Monday to longtime NAACP executive director Benjamin L. Hooks as he lay in repose at the Detroit church where he preached for 30 years.
Some 20 million British voters fixed their eyes on TV screens for the first U.S.-style political debate, a historic event billed as an exciting prelude to one of the closest elections in years.
Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it.
Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it.
As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved.
Newseum President Ken Paulson says negative newspaper coverage of Elvis helped make him the king of rock 'n' roll. Critics initially hated his music and his moves, but teens went wild.
By the standards embraced by his hero Nixon, can Karl Rove be classified as a traitor?
'Tea party' activists agree that government is too big, but that's where the consensus ends among the diverse groups of frustrated Americans who count themselves part of the fledgling coalition.
Gen. Alexander M. Haig's name evoked martial memories of a famous namesake in World War I -- Field Marshal Douglas Haig, who commanded allied troops in the bloodiest battle of the war to end all wars.
'Tea party' activists agree that government is too big, but that's where the consensus ends among the diverse groups of frustrated Americans who count themselves part of the fledgling coalition.
Two giant pandas born in American zoos were headed to China by special cargo jet Thursday to become part of a breeding program in their endangered species' native land.
Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, prompting passage of the National Cancer Act, aimed at making the "conquest of cancer a national crusade." Just four years later, scientists from the National Cancer Institute published a study demonstrating that a group of compounds taken fr …
Former U.S. Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, a liberal Republican from Maryland who championed civil rights and protection of the Chesapeake Bay during his 26 years in Washington, has died. He was 87.
We have peace, war, and world police. We have "fat cats" and necessary funding of the rich and powerful.