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 ...

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’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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Even Republicans like Richard Nixon were once champions of the environment. ... Carter's successor, Republican Ronald Reagan, was something that Nixon had not been — overtly hostile to science.

Republican President Richard Nixon's reelection was confirmed, manned Moon missions ended, and the U.S. began dropping more bombs over North Vietnam than any time since World War II, all within 24 ...

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 ...