At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it ...

Richard Nixon’s lasting damage to the GOP. August 4, 2014 More than 10 years ago. Former President Richard Nixon. (courtesy of HBO) Richard Nixon is not having an easy time of late.

If only Richard Nixon had listened to Jackie Robinson — the GOP might be doing better than Trump today Sixty years ago this month, the celebrated baseball player and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Richard Nixon would be “drummed out” of GOP today as a liberal: “He passed as much social welfare legislation as Lyndon Johnson” Salon talks to "Being Nixon: A Man Divided" author Evan ...

For one, in the razor-thin election of 1960, Nixon had won 32 percent of the black vote, and the Republican Party initially projected winning about that much in 1968, as Leah Wright Rigueur notes ...

Richard Nixon, with family members in tow, greets the crowd at a 1969 inaugural ball. ... Also, Nixon had a GOP that cared more about the health of the country than its hold on power.

Yet in many respects, Nixon was to the left of today’s GOP. Here are some reasons why Nixon, as right-wing as he was, would be way too liberal and nuanced for the Trumpistas and the Republican ...

The atmosphere in the Oval Office, lit up with TV lights on that warm August evening in 1974, crackled with tension as Richard M. Nixon said he was resigning -- the first president to do so.

At first glance, it is telling that a Republican president like Richard Nixon passed pro-environmental policies at all, given that the modern GOP is staunchly against environmental reforms.

The late former Republican adviser slammed Trump in 2021, calling him ‘a bully — mean, nasty and disrespectful of anyone in his way’ ...

NY GOP Chair Ed Cox said his father-in-law Richard Nixon was politically persecuted like Trump. Christopher Sadowski “[Trump’s] two impeachments — certainly with lawfare,” said Cox, who ...

Don’t worry, Nixon was most definitely a Republican, from his 1946 entry into national politics with a challenge to Rep. Jerry Voorhis in California’s 12th Congressional District, running on ...