After the 1960s, he worked for various U.S. veterans’ causes in addition to his decades-long performing arts career.

Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide whose testimony revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system and changed the course of American history, has died. The 99 ...

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system, providing the "smoking gun" of the Watergate scandal ...

Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide whose testimony revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret ...

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 ...

There is tape in the Oval Office,” said Mr. Butterfield, a former White House aide, in testimony that rocked the Watergate hearings and led to the president’s resignation.

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 Office and Cabinet Room and routinely ...

Tran Le Xuan, South Vietnam’s “first lady,” was passionate in her support of the southern republic – and a fierce critic of American involvement in Indochina.

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

“As for my own action,” Jacobs would later recount, “the enemy had spies in the province headquarters. So they knew we were coming; they had three days to set up an ambush, and we walked right into it ...

D uring the last period of his time as president, while the Watergate scandal was raging, Richard Nixon allegedly told several U.S. representatives that he could get on the telephone, issue an order, ...

Former President Richard Nixon and President Donald Trump. I am old enough to remember the precise moment. I was watching television in April 1970 when I became intensely aware that the president had ...