Richard Nixon poses with his family and their dog, Checkers, in Washington, D.C., in September 1952. Bettmann/Contributor Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ...

Forty-nine years ago today, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Nixon announced his decision the previous night in a televised address, and then left the White House the following day when the ...

Scientists at MIT have digitally manipulated video and audio to create a creepy deepfake of President Nixon “delivering” a speech that would have been used in the event of an Apollo 11 disaster.

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...

For a historical pointer to our current era — special counsels, political scandals potentially verging into criminality, congressional investigations, popular disillusionment — it’s hard to beat the ...

“What I am going to do — and this is unprecedented in the history of American politics — is give to this television and radio audience a complete financial history. Everything I’ve earned, everything ...

President Bush travels to Kansas State University Monday to give a speech defending his administration's policy on Iraq. Bush's speech has many parallels to one given by President Richard Nixon on the ...

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...