Exactly why Nixon decided to leave his law career behind and enter the political ring is unclear, though his long-held desire ...

After serving as President Dwight Eisenhower's right-hand man for eight years, Nixon faced an uphill battle to the presidency ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated ...

Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for president.

It is always hard to interpret Donald Trump's more outrageous statements. Is he joking? Is he expressing wild ideas that he ...

"Nixon/King" rewrites a chapter of the civil rights movement and the 1960 presidential campaign in a purposely provocative way.

Interestingly, approval among Democrats who were polled fell 22% during his first year, while Republican approval only fell ...

Just weeks before John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, the Democratic candidate’s campaign worked behind the scenes to free Martin Luther King Jr. from a Georgia prison after the civil ...

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I miss Richard Nixon. He was a detestable bigot and despite his own protestations, a crook. The great Hunter S. Thompson wrote at his death, he was “a ...

Mike Johnson said he is going to order that the Capitol's flags, which are at half-staff due to the death of Jimmy Carter, be ...

In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration's help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the ...