WASHINGTON - Fifty years ago, newly installed President Gerald Ford simply got tired of questions about the legal fate of resigned predecessor Richard Nixon. So, on Sept. 8, 1974, Ford went ahead and ...

A close relative of former President Richard Nixon is for the first time publicly discussing the disgraced prez’s resignation over Watergate — and says it reminds him of how unfairly Donald Trump is ...

If the new Supreme Court decision, Trump v. U.S., had applied back in 1974, could President Richard Nixon have been prosecuted for Watergate? Or, would this decision shield Nixon from criminal charges ...

The House initiated an impeachment process against Nixon in February 1974, authorizing the Judiciary Committee to investigate whether grounds existed to impeach him of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told me, “Your memo is good.” But it was clear Nixon would never see my 11th-hour plea for him not to resign. It was Aug. 8, 1974, and ...

(WDBJ) - President Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. He won re-election in a landslide in 1972 only for the “Watergate” ...

Henry S. Richardson ’77 was spending his weekend rock climbing in New York when his father, the United States Attorney General, quit his job. It was Oct. 20, 1973, and Richard Nixon had just asked ...