On November 17th, 1973, utter this phrase. In the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors gathered at Walt ...

Forty years ago, in mid-May 1974, Elizabeth Drew, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, wrote this in her journal: "Rumors went around the Capitol today that the President was resigning." ...

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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.

President Richard Nixon resigned 40 years ago today, saying during his announcement that it would begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." The 37th president faced ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — On Aug. 7, 1974, three top ...

Describing it as “a personal word” added to the main body of his 1974 state of the union address, on the heels of a lengthy ovation following his expression of hope that a freshman lawmaker in the ...

On August 8, 1974, then-President Richard Nixon announced in a televised address that he was resigning as president of the United States and would be replaced by then-Vice President Gerald Ford. Nixon ...

Uncertain of his own mind, badgered by his own advisers and anxious about the implications of his act, President Gerald R. Ford startled the political world 40 years ago Monday. In deciding to pardon ...

Political journalist Elizabeth Drew chronicled the events of 1974 in her recently reissued Washington Journal. She tells NPR's Robert Siegel that... 40 Years After Watergate, A Look Back At Nixon's ...