The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
For 50 years, the only Super Bowl the Chiefs had ever won was the last one they played here. So the storylines of that 23-7 ...
This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.
A transcript of the conversation, which we have verified matches the audio made available through the Nixon Presidential ...
Richard Nixon tried the same thing Donald Trump is trying in not spending money Congress has already approved. It did not end ...
Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.
Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...
A showdown between Congress and President Richard Nixon in the 1970s led to a law laying out specific rules around ...
Donald Trump is the first president to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs, teeing up likely legal battles that will test his executive authority.
President Trump ordered a temporary pause on federal grant, loan and financial assistance programs this week — but lawmakers ...
A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.