Jules Witcover has done it again. The veteran political reporter and columnist has produced insightful books on politics and history with metronomic regularity for more than three decades — he’s ...

On this day in 1973, the Vice-President of the United States resigned from office after pleading no contest to accepting bribes. Pretty big deal, right? But Spiro Agnew has been largely lost to ...

The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew Veteran Washington reporter Jules Witcover's "Very Strange Bedfellows," about the promising and ultimately ignominious partnership of ...

When Richard Nixon lifted the Governor of Maryland from a position of relative obscurity to the second spot on the Republican Party’s tick et last month, Spiro Theodore Agnew reacted with becoming ...

(TIME, September 30) -- Once upon a time in the '60s, in the days when the culture wars began, there lived an obscure first-term Governor of Maryland--a sleek-looking silvery man who wore sharkskin ...

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The continued public furor over the Manhattan district attorney’s pursuit of a criminal charge against Donald Trump often includes this salient point: Current and former U.S. presidents have never ...

Anyone who has read much history probably knows that President Richard Nixon once serenaded ex-President Harry Truman during a White House visit by playing "Missouri Waltz" on the piano in his honor ...

(TIME, August 16, 1968) -- As they start on the road to November, the Republicans are united. Now what will they do with the unity? Richard Nixon is clearly in tune with his party. Will he be in tune ...

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Variety is celebrating its 115th birthday and, amid all the upheaval of 2020, it’s good to remember that the entertainment industry has survived constant change and adaptation. That’s reassuring.

AS they start on the road to November, the Republicans are united. Now what will they do with their unity? Richard Nixon is clearly in tune with his party. Will he be in tune with the country? These ...