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 different ...

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.

Just less than 50 years ago a scandal like never before rocked the office of the presidency, leading to the resignation of the 37th president, Richard M. Nixon. Nixon resigned the presidency in August ...

History was made on Thursday, Aug. 8, 1974. President Richard M. Nixon announced that night on television he would resign from the office of the presidency, becoming the first president in history to ...

The president gave an emotional farewell speech to White House staff. — -- On August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon woke up with a start after a restless night. “I looked at my watch,” Nixon ...

In the early 1970s, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the connection between an attempted burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and President ...

On June 17, 1972, five intruders broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post uncovered the attempted wiretapping ...

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