Geoff Shepard, former deputy White House counsel for Nixon, has written three fabulous books that should forever change Americans’ views about Watergate — The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President ...

He took part in White House machinations to stop leaks of classified information by overseeing an investigative unit that ...

Like a bad penny, the Watergate scandal keeps returning. The last of the secretly recorded White House tapes that sealed President Richard Nixon’s fate would not be released until 2013. During the ...

In the 1970s, Congress passed a raft of laws to hold the White House accountable. President Trump has decided they don’t ...

The federal government passed a whole raft of laws in the wake of the 1970s Watergate scandal, aimed at curbing the power of ...

Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon – facing impeachment and removal from office amid charges of abuse of power, obstructing justice, and contempt of Congress – was visited by leading members of ...

A funny thing happened on the way to ranking the four big presidential scandals of our time: Former Nixon staffers in O.C. said Watergate wasn’t Nixon’s scandal after all, and he was actually the ...

With his resignation soon to take effect, Richard Nixon leaves the White House one last time as he boards Army One on Aug. 9, 1974. Bettmann Archive On April 29, 1974, President Richard Nixon ...

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” Gerald Ford delivered the famous line upon taking the oath of office after the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The “internal wounds ...

Former US president Richard Nixon (L) and his Democratic challenger in the 1972 presidential election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) Fifty years ago today, ...

The last of the secretly recorded White House tapes that sealed President Richard Nixon’s fate would not be released until 2013. During the past half century, the suffix “gate” routinely has been ...