Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television ...

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In the early 1970s — as the economy stalled, productivity declined and another recession loomed — President Richard M. Nixon’s administration appealed to an unlikely partner to help turn things around ...

Fifty years ago Friday, former President Richard Nixon gave his final wave and boarded a helicopter leaving the White House after resigning from office. It was the culmination of the Watergate scandal ...

Last week, The New York Times published an explosive report entitled “Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter.” It immediately went viral—as it should have. While it’s hard to top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Nixon in front of a bookcase - Bachrach/Getty Images President Richard M. Nixon's consumption of cottage cheese (with or ...

Today is Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, the day of the week when I offer quotations intended to be uplifting or elucidating. Today is also the 50 th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon’s resignation as president ...

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago. By Jim Rutenberg Jim Rutenberg writes about the intersection of politics and ...

"On July 20, 1969, U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong took 'one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' The success of the Apollo 11 mission satisfied the goal that had been set by President ...

In so many ways, I despised our 37th president, Richard M. Nixon. Yet, if I could, with a wave of my hand I would bring Nixon back as our president now. Nixon ...

While America has long had restrictive drug laws, the "war on drugs" is considered to have begun in earnest in June 1971. "America's public enemy number one," President Richard Nixon proclaimed in a ...