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Rick Allen was on the C-130 plane with his fellow Marines, getting ready to fly to Vietnam, when the plane was abruptly shut ...
Richard J. Moylan has overseen a transformation of Green-Wood Cemetery in his nearly 40 years as president. Now he’s ready to ...
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Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold.
It was Oct. 20, 1973, and President Richard M. Nixon was seeking to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation. Mr.
In 1973, in the face of a debilitating energy crisis, President Richard M. Nixon lit a National Christmas Tree sporting just a single light — and asked Congress to grant him authority to curtail ...
Two years after former President Richard M. Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, calling substance use the nation’s “public enemy No. 1,” he made a startling admission during a meeting in ...
On Sept. 26, 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts met for the first ever televised presidential debate in Studio 1 at the old CBS Chicago broadcast ...
Unfortunately for Nixon, immediately prior to the first debate (held on Sept. 26, 1960) he suffered from a series of health issues — a knee injury, an infection, a fever — and the viewing ...
Today is also the 50 th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon’s resignation as president of the United States. So my words of wisdom are inspired from that momentous episode in U.S. history.
WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very ...