Through the shadow of Watergate would later follow him forever, Richard Nixon began his presidency 50 years ago this month with high hopes for peace, ... In the background, of course, ...

Richard Nixon stepped off the iconic blue and white plane at El Toro Marine Corps Air Base. The plane bore the “Spirit of ’76” moniker and the presidential seal. But Nixon was no longer the ...

As U.S. President Richard Nixon spoke to Apollo 11 astronauts on the phone after they landed on the moon in 1969, a photograph taken during the same mission was already on the wall in the Oval Office.

Jeffrey E. Garten’s “Three Days at Camp David” returns readers to 1971 and Nixon’s momentous decision to take the United States off the gold standard.