Former President Richard Nixon made history on Aug. 9, 1975, when he became the first and only United States president to resign.. His legacy has been complicated since then, marked by alternating ...

Next, students view and analyze two video clips that provide background information about Richard Nixon before the 1968 presidential election. From there, ...

Nixon won in 1968 by 0.7 percentage points — people are mixing up 1972 (a genuine landslide) with 1968 (a razor-thin election) to make it seem like candidate-swapping is obviously doomed.

On Sept. 23, 1952, Richard Nixon delivered in front of a national TV audience what became known as the “Checkers Speech,” a 30-minute address to the nation.