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 ...

The year Nixon resigned in disgrace, his portrait was stolen and stuffed in a second-floor classroom, prompting the Law School to remove it from its library, then return it decades later.