Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for president.

Exactly why Nixon decided to leave his law career behind and enter the political ring is unclear, though his long-held desire ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a ...

After serving as President Dwight Eisenhower's right-hand man for eight years, Nixon faced an uphill battle to the presidency, pitting him against John F. Kennedy, the press and his own conscience.

Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White ... The top name on an early draft of Nixon’s enemies list was a Republican who worked in the Nixon White House ...

And his selection of former GOP staffer and MAGA loyalist Kash Patel ... in 1973 when he was stunned to wind up as No. 12 on Nixon’s “enemies list.” Want more breaking political news?

Bush had tapped Christine Todd Whitman, a relatively moderate Northeastern Republican ... like the one that reelected Richard Nixon in 1972, is less internally coherent than the one George ...

This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard Nixon, a moderately conservative Republican who was a critic of government intervention in the economy.

President Lyndon Johnson delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress on January 14, 1969, less than a week before the inauguration of his successor, Republican Richard Nixon. The speech ...

For example, after Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 ... His latest book is titled “Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism.” ...

Specifically, as a new play premiering Friday at Hamtramck’s Planet Ant Theatre asks, what if Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate in that extremely close election, had stepped in to help ...