What happened when Richard Nixon wanted more control over interest rates This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then ...

Richard Nixon’s short-term meddling with the Fed chair harmed the U.S. economy for years. Donald Trump’s threats show dangerous parallels and potential risks.

At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it ...

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 ...

Richard Milhous Nixon, Law School ‘37, is the only U.S. president Duke has produced in its century. “Few came so far, so fast, so alone,” biographer John A. Farrell wrote about the man who ...

President Richard M. Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon are shown standing together in the East Room of the White House in this Aug. 9, 1974 file photo, where he made a farewell address to the members ...