The day Nixon resigned, The Boston Globe placed a replica of the Preamble to the Constitution (“We the people…”) under the newspaper’s masthead. The implicit notion: The system works.

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

It's hard not to begin this talk with one of the most expressive of human sounds: a long, happy sigh, followed by two cheers for Gerald Ford. Not three. Not just yet. All incoming presidents get ...

Nixon covered up misdeeds long enough to be re-elected in a 1972 landslide — only later to resign before his looming impeachment, when even his administration flunkies could no longer mask his ...

President Richard M. Nixon sits at a desk, holding papers, as he announces his resignation on television, August 8, 1974. Yes, nine times in American history. Eight of those instances were due to ...