President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace after being implicated in a vast array of alleged criminal activities. Vice President Gerald Ford immediately became president and pardoned him for any criminal actions that Nixon may have committed, sparing Nixon from indictment. ..…
Accusations of obstruction of justice were counts of impeachment against both Presidents Clinton and Nixon. ... The Nixon “precedent” is that removing a special counsel constitutes obstruction of justice. ..…
Buchanan is the author of Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever. ..…
Rather than participate in what he characterized as a would-be Saturday Night Massacre (recalling Nixon’s mass firing during Watergate), McGahn instead resigned, telling White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus he couldn’t do the “crazy sh*t” Trump was demanding of him. . ..…
On foreign policy, Russiagate puts the Democrats to the right of the Republicans, similar to the way that John Kennedy in the 1960 campaign accused the Eisenhower (and VP Nixon) administration of weakening America’s defenses, which presently enables the energy and defense industries and their..…
Bork, who complied with President Richard Nixon’s order to fire the Watergate prosecutor during the Saturday Night Massacre before going on to serve as an appeals court judge. . ..…
He worried it would spark an incident reminiscent of the “Saturday Night Massacre” in which top Justice Department officials resigned rather than carry out President Nixon’s orders to fire a special prosecutor investigating Watergate. ..…
Eisenhower, and pledged his support for Richard Nixon while attending a Roman Catholic elementary school in Manhattan. . . ..…
The downfall of President Richard Nixon is attributed to August 5, 1974, when the famous smoking gun tape was released showing Nixon agreeing to obstruction of justice. Nixon, saw his approval ratings fall from 67 percent at the beginning of 1973 to 29 percent at the end of..…
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in August 1971, when Richard Nixon broke the link between the dollar and gold, actually increased the power of US imperialism to manage the international financial system and thereby to shape the global economy: states do matter, but so too do the differences..…
His latest book is Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever See his website. . ..…
The Freedom of Information Act wasn’t enacted until 1966, and broad demands for accountability only began with the jarring revelations of the 1970s: years of official deceit about the Vietnam War as detailed in the Pentagon Papers; the Watergate scandal which forced President Nixon to resign; the..…
From the evidence available, it appears that the Framers vested the in President because experience in Continental Congress had disclosed the inexpediency of vesting command in group and because the lesson of English history was that danger lurked in vesting command in person separate from the responsible..…