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

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

Richard Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after leading changes that drive artists away.

Congress has attempted to terminate the U.S. military involvement in Iran by passing a concurrent resolution, but the president has opposed it and the Congress’s only real power is in ...

From informal amanuenses to institutional gatekeepers, the secretary to the president evolved alongside executive power — eventually yielding its authority to the modern White House chief of ...

Arsenio Hall made his entrance as host and glanced quickly to his left. What — or rather who — he saw on stage delighted him. The camera switched to a shot of a suited Bill Cl ...

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the ...

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon ...

Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon White House aide who uncovered the Watergate tapes, died at the age of 99.