Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval ...

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system, providing the "smoking gun" of the Watergate scandal that brought down the president, has died at ...

Butterfield supervised the placement of a voice-activated recording system that operated at locations including the White House and the Old Executive Office Building.

Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay.

This HBO miniseries remixes the original graphic novel's story while delivering a fresh story set in an alternate history.

New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli and Dawn Sterner. The Year of Turmoil and Tragedy October 19, 1968. It’s day two of the 1968 ...

Citing the U.N., Truman engaged U.S. troops in a so-called “police action” without seeking lawmakers’ approval. Congress later that year approved the Defense Production Act to mobilize U.S. war ...

At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers ...