In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

President Trump's efforts to cut federal programs and fire watchdogs are drawing attention to 1970s-era government reforms.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

Former President Richard Nixon first said "The professors are the enemy" during a 1972 conversation with his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. Vance quoted Nixon's words during a 2021 speech ...

President Richard M. Nixon sought to fire the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation, but his attorney ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...

Adams, who claimed that the prosecution was the political consequence of his brave disagreement with Joe Biden over funding ...

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

Trump is now the Kennedy Center's board chairman, giving him control over a beloved arts institution that regularly interacts ...