The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died ...

Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide who revealed the existence of damaging recordings related to the break-in ...

As a deputy assistant to the president, he supervised Richard Nixon's taping system that had been secretly placed in four ...

Alexander Butterfield, who has died aged 99, was the former White House aide who dropped a bombshell in July 1973 when he told a Senate committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the 1972 ...

Gerald Ford is known for many things, including his, shall we say, "interesting" cottage cheese toppings. But his favorite ...

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a partial list of Irish American New Jersey political leaders of the past that you ...

Congress has attempted to terminate the U.S. military involvement in Iran by passing a concurrent resolution, but the ...

WASHINGTON — John Wrory Ficklin was 7 when he learned that his father, the son of a slave, was important. It was 1963, and ...

From informal amanuenses to institutional gatekeepers, the secretary to the president evolved alongside executive power — ...

The Ficklin family was a constant presence for nearly eight decades, serving presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack ...

Decisions about war and military interventions have shifted from Congress to the White House, despite the clear wording of ...