In August 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned after the Supreme Court decided that tapes of presidential conversations were not protected by executive privilege. The tapes thus needed to be ...
A New History” and editor in chief of Washingtonian magazine, reexamined popular narratives surrounding the Watergate scandal ...
WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very different ...
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.
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 ...
It was a shimmering spring day with wisps of cirrus clouds against azure Maxfield Parrish skies. Spokane was basking in its Salish name: Sp'q'n'i, "Children of the Sun." On May 4, 1974, provincial ...