Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for president.

Exactly why Nixon decided to leave his law career behind and enter the political ring is unclear, though his long-held desire ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a ...

After serving as President Dwight Eisenhower's right-hand man for eight years, Nixon faced an uphill battle to the presidency ...

Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White ... The top name on an early draft of Nixon’s enemies list was a Republican who worked in the Nixon White House ...

Interestingly, approval among Democrats who were polled fell 22% during his first year, while Republican approval only fell ...

Richard Nixon invited Johnny Cash to the White House in an attempt to politically persuade and “neutralize” him.

Bush had tapped Christine Todd Whitman, a relatively moderate Northeastern Republican ... like the one that reelected Richard Nixon in 1972, is less internally coherent than the one George ...

President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard Nixon. The speech ...