Richard Nixon tried the same thing Donald Trump is trying in not spending money Congress has already approved. It did not end ...

US President Joe Biden has often been photographed enjoying a vanilla ice cream cone, former president Ronald Reagan liked ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

This, experts say, allows Trump to embrace corporate and individual gifts in a more brazen way that mirrors another president he has been compared to — Richard Nixon. While nearly half a century ...

North Jersey home listed for $6.325 million was once home to a stockbroker who donated hundreds of acres to what is now High ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...

In his campaign speeches last fall, Richard Nixon pledged an honorable ... s three decades of bloodshed and turmoil. Thus Nixon is assuming the presidency unfreighted with any of the ...

Specifically, he’s a fan of William McKinley, president from 1897 to 1901 ... Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that ...

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley looks at the considerable, often heroic achievements of Joe Biden, and at the mistakes that may color historians' view of his presidency, as the man Biden ...

When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over the example of Richard Nixon, 36th Vice President of the U ...