“Of course I knew Jerry Voorhis wasn’t a communist,” Richard Nixon said. The young congressman was musing over his recent campaign with his defeated opponent’s adviser over lunch in 1947.

Richard Nixon (top row, far right) and John F. Kennedy (top row, second from right) as young congressmen. One could say Nixon lost the presidency because of a limousine door. Still recovering from ...

Only three of his predecessors underwent similar proceedings: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, who were acquitted after trials in the Senate; and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being ...

Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in California. He had a tough start in life. His parents’ lemon farm failed and two of his brothers died in childhood. He didn’t let any of that hold him back.

This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard ... As a young man during World War II, prior to joining the navy, Nixon had worked as a junior ...