President Trump's efforts to cut federal programs and fire watchdogs are drawing attention to 1970s-era government reforms.

In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.

Unlike campaign fundraising ... more brazen way that mirrors another president he has been compared to — Richard Nixon. While nearly half a century separates their tenures, both openly solicited ...

during a Nixon campaign speech ... There is a vacuum in the nation’s leadership, and once Richard Milhous Nixon takes the oath of office next week to become the 37th President of the U.S ...

The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Fed Chair is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, ...

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.

In both the Nixon and Trump cases, the efforts of Canadian prime ministers – then Pierre Trudeau, now Justin Trudeau – to win ...

Toobin’s thesis is brashly revisionist; Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon has gone down in history as a great act of beneficence. According to conventional wisdom, by immunizing Nixon from ...

The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Federal Reserve chair, is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fought it ...