News on Richard Nixon

Statue of President Ford dedicated in Capitol

2011-05-03T12:00:46Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders gathered on Tuesday to witness the dedication of a statue of the late former president Gerald Ford in the Capitol Rotunda.

The statue is the state of Michigan's placement for the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol.

"Now the gentleman from Abraham Lincoln's seven

face-offs with Stephen Douglas in their battle for Illinois' U.S. Senate seat significantly boosted his profile in national politics a...

William Saxbe, attorney general under Nixon, dies

2010-08-24T16:15:29Z

William Saxbe, attorney general in Nixon administration and former US Senator from Ohio, dies

William Saxbe (SAX'-bee), the fourth attorney general in Richard Nixon's administration who served during the investigation of the Watergate break-in, has died at his home in Ohio.

His son Charles "Rocky" Saxbe says his father died Tuesday afternoon in Nixon's grandson seeks GOP nod to run for Congress, will test his pedigree in NY district

Richard Nixon's grandson is joining the family business.

Like the Kennedys, Carters, Cuomos and Bushes before him, 30-year-old Christopher Nixon Cox is hoping to use ...

Richard Nixon, Fillibuster Foe

2010-11-02T14:02:01Z

...

Former Nixon aide, Alexander Haig dead at 85

2010-04-16T07:01:48Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85.

Haig sought the U.S. pr...

Political spycraft seen in Nixon papers

2010-04-16T07:44:35Z

Nixon's interest in political espionage is evident in latest release of presidential papers

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 ...

Ad minutage on ITV

2010-10-22T12:18:59Z

...

Who Are They Calling Elitist

2010-10-22T12:03:39Z

...

NY GOP chooses Nixon son-in-law Cox as chairman

2010-06-25T20:29:21Z

Battered New York GOP chooses Richard Nixon's son-in-law Edward Cox as new chairman

A Manhattan lawyer who is Richard Nixon's son-in-law is the new leader of the ...

How Obama Sounds Like Nixon

2010-10-26T20:53:36Z

...

The World Obama Faces: Grand Old Strategy?

2010-04-16T13:48:50Z

How the President-elect might emulate Ike and Nixon.

The World Obama Faces: Grand Old Strategy?

How the President-elect might emulate Ike and Nixon.

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev, November 16, 2008

When Barack Obama takes the oath of office, he will face some fundamental foreign policy choices. Ironically, given his party af...

44 Years Later, a Washington, D.C. Death Unresolved

2010-10-26T20:37:02Z

...

Will Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon Find Favor With the Academy? 'He's Not a Dick,' Says NYT's David Carr

2010-04-16T14:18:18Z

Toward the end of the film Frost/Nixon, based on the Peter Morgan play of the same name, Frank Langella's Richard Nixon wonders whether his legacy will prevent young people from aspiring to a life in politics. "They'll think it's all just corrupt," he laments.

"I always felt that line was powerful," director...

President-elect Obama reaches out to former rivals

2010-04-16T14:23:08Z

President-elect Obama seems interested in a Lincolnesque 'team of rivals' for Cabinet

Presidents typically say they want to be surrounded by strong-willed people who have the courage to disagree with them. President-elect Barack Obama, reaching out to Hillary Rodham Clinton and R...

The Obama Court

2010-10-21T09:43:56Z

...

Nixon resigns

2010-09-08T12:37:52Z

Letter No 1331, August 16 1974

The writers of the Constitution devised, to their satisfaction, a recipe for removing a president. And, after 187 years of all sorts of presidents and every sort of turmoil, including a civil war, the provision was used. It took two years from a short report in the papers about some comic burglary in Washington to the blinding headlines: "Nixon Resigns". Two years for ...

McCain, Obama finally head for key debate clash

2010-04-16T13:13:33Z

After two days of high drama, Republican White House hopeful John McCain finally headed Friday to join Democrat Barack Obama for the first of three key debates in the US elections.

Forty-eight years to the day after the first televised debate between

McCain,Obama finally head for key debate clash

2010-04-16T13:13:38Z

After two days of high drama, Republican White House hopeful John McCain finally headed Friday to join Democrat Barack Obama for the first of three key debates in the US elections.

Forty years to the day after the first televised debate between John McCain and Barack Obama meet Friday at the University of Mississippi for their first of three 90-minute debates -- showdowns that experts say could be their last best chances to move undecided voters.

As Obama hunkers down this week with advisers in U.S. Senate ended abruptly last fall with his defeat by Jim Webb. However, let's not write Allen's political obituary just yet. Sure, it was a disappointing loss for Allen, who, just four months prior, seemed like a cinch to win overwhelming re-election and be on his way to a formidable run for the Fred Thompson is shaking up his still-unofficial campaign, replacing his top aide with a former Michigan senator and a veteran Florida strategist.

The shake-up comes amid consternation inside the campaign about the active role played by Thompson's wife, Jeri, a lawyer, media ...

What Is Bush's Executive Privilege?

2010-10-15T09:48:33Z

...

Executive privilege Q&A

2010-09-09T04:44:35Z

What Is Executive Privilege? Questions and Answers About Presidents' Authority to Keep Mum

It's not in the Constitution and there's no law on the books. But ever since George Washington refused to release his War Department correspondence, presidents have asserted their authority to keep Congress fr...

Today in history - June 23

2010-09-09T04:09:27Z

On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes Received a Patent for His 'Type-Writer'

Today is Saturday, June 23, the 174th day of 2007. There are 191 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-writer."

On this date:

In 1757, forces of the East India Company led by Obituaries in the News

Elias Blake Jr.

ATLANTA (AP) _ Elias Blake Jr., a leading advocate for blacks in higher education and a former president of Atlanta's Clark College, was found dead Sunday. He was 77.

He was found dead, apparently of natural causes, at his home in Washington, said

Former President Gerald Ford Dead at 93

2010-10-15T09:39:19Z

...

Uruguay Nixon Papers

2010-08-13T00:15:47Z

File - This is an undated handout photo of Dan A. Mitrione, a public safety officer at the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, who was kidnapped in 1970. Long-secret diplomatic cables show President Richard Nixon wanted the Uruguayan government to threaten to k...

Nixons Grandson

2010-05-11T15:00:28Z

Chris Cox, grandson of President Richard Nixon, poses at his campaign office, Tuesday, May 11, 2010, in Smithtown, N.Y. Cox is seeking the GOP nomination to run in eastern Long Island's 1st Congressional District against...

Walter Hickel

2010-06-26T10:27:13Z

FILE - In this file photo from Jan. 9, 1969, Walter J. Hickel, left, Secretary of Interior-designate in the cabinet of Richard Nixon, meets with President Lyndon Johnson at the White House in Washington

Michelle Obama

2010-05-07T14:16:52Z

Tricia Nixon Cox daughter of former President Richard M. Nixon, is acknowledge by first lady Michelle Obama during a Mother's Day event in the East Room of the White House in President Richard M. Nixon throws out the ceremonial first pitch in Washington as Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, second from left, and Washington Senators Manager Ted Williams, and others, look on. A hundred years ago, a portly right-hander,