WASHINGTON - Fifty years ago, newly installed President Gerald Ford simply got tired of questions about the legal fate of resigned predecessor Richard Nixon. So, on Sept. 8, 1974, Ford went ahead and ...

The House initiated an impeachment process against Nixon in February 1974, authorizing the Judiciary Committee to investigate whether grounds existed to impeach him of high crimes and misdemeanors.

A close relative of former President Richard Nixon is for the first time publicly discussing the disgraced prez’s resignation over Watergate — and says it reminds him of how unfairly Donald Trump is ...

If the new Supreme Court decision, Trump v. U.S., had applied back in 1974, could President Richard Nixon have been prosecuted for Watergate? Or, would this decision shield Nixon from criminal charges ...

Five decades ago, on August 8, 1974, then-President Richard Nixon announced his intention to resign from office – the first president in American history to do so. "By taking this action, I hope that ...

Henry S. Richardson ’77 was spending his weekend rock climbing in New York when his father, the United States Attorney General, quit his job. It was Oct. 20, 1973, and Richard Nixon had just asked ...

It was a shimmering spring day with wisps of cirrus clouds against azure Maxfield Parrish skies. Spokane was basking in its Salish name: Sp'q'n'i, "Children of the Sun." On May 4, 1974, provincial ...