On November 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon gave a televised press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover-up, despite recent congressional testimony by former White House legal counsel John Dean to the contrary. The embattled president also spoke of his questionable tax record and the subpoena of the Watergate tapes--official recordings of White House conversations expected to prove that Nixon was guilty of criminal activity. The Watergate affair began when a break-in at the Watergate Hotel by White House officials was uncovered by journalists and the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, and then escalated when President Nixon attempted to use executive privilege as justification for suppressing investigation of the incident. On July 16, 1973, a former White House aide brought the existence of the Watergate tapes to the attention of the Senate committee investigating Watergate, and on July 26, the recordings were...
On the evening of August 8, 1974, in a nationally televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announced his intention to resign his office effective noon the next day. With impeachment certain...
On September 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he committed or may have committed while in office. Nixon had resigned as president on...
On August 8, 1974, in an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings...
On October 20, 1973, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned after refusing to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who earlier in the day had announced that he would not...
On November 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon gave a televised press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover-up, despite recent congressional testimony by former...
On April 22, 1994, former president Richard M. Nixon died in New York City of complications resulting from a stroke he suffered on April 19. He was eighty-one years old. Undoubtedly the most...
On October 10, 1973, less than a year before Richard M. Nixon's resignation as president of the United States, Spiro Agnew became the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. The same day,...
In 1968, Republican Richard Nixon successfully ran for president on a ticket he shared with Spiro Agnew, a relatively obscure former governor of Maryland. Agnew was known by conservatives for his...
Spiro Agnew, President Richard M. Nixon's first vice president, was one of the nation's most outspoken critics of the antiwar and counterculture movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In...
After he lost the 1962 California gubernatorial race to Democrat Pat Brown, many observers felt that Richard Nixon's political career was over. The failed Republican president candidate of 1960...
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