Richard M. Nixon

During the Watergate scandal, the prosecutor subpoenaed Oval Office conversations audio tapes. President Nixon refused to turn over the tapes, asserting executive privilege.

Question: Is the President's right to safeguard certain information, using his "executive privilege…

<p><span class="deck"> President Nixon’s visit to Peking starts one more surprising turn in an American-Chinese “affair” nearly two centuries old</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Senator’s View</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The ex-Presidency now carries perquisites and powers that would have amazed all but the last few who have held that office</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Conjectural or speculative history can be a silly game, as in “What if the Roman legions had machine guns?” But this historian argues that to enlarge our knowledge and understanding it sometimes makes very good sense to ask …</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A noted historian argues that television, a relative newcomer, has nearly destroyed old—and valuable—political traditions</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> This century’s most powerful Secretary of State talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the Foreign Service, the role of the CIA, the rights of journalists, the contrast between meddlers and statesmen—and about the continuing struggle for a coherent foreign policy</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A sometime “Nixon-hater” looks back on Watergate and discovers that his glee of a decade ago has given way to larger, sadder, and more generous emotions</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In which a President fails to fulfill his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” And a reluctant Congress acts.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This is not a test. It’s the real thing.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Despite his feeling that “we are beginning to lose the memory of what a restrained and civil society can be like,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senior senator from New York, and a lifelong student of history, remains an optimist about our system of government and our resilience as a people.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An old, familiar show is back in Washington. There’s a new cast, of course, but the script is pretty much the same as ever. Here’s the program.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A year ago, we were in the midst of a presidential campaign most memorable for charges by both sides that the opponent was not hard enough, tough enough, masculine enough. That he was, in fact, a sissy. Both sides also admitted that this sort of rhetoric was deplorable. But it’s been going on since the beginning of the republic.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how it grew, and grew, and grew…</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">AN ANNIVERSARY LOOK BACK AT THE BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL EVER, THROUGH THE CHANGES IT WROUGHT IN THE LANGUAGE</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Dick’s Last Trick</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">What’s going to happen when the most prosperous, best-educated generation in history finally grows up? (And just how special <span class="typestyle"> are</span> the baby boomers?) </span></p>

<p>Nixon, Ford, and Carter developed a friendship of sorts on a memorable flight to Cairo to honor the recently slain Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat.</p>

<p><span class="deck">What happened when an anti-Vietnam War activist met his new client - Lyndon Johnson</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Nixon on Truman, 1962</span> </p>

<p>Nixon’s abuse of presidential power constitutes his most important influence on later constitutional law and U.S. politics.</p>

<p>Though he defended his decision as being in the nation's best interest, Ford's pardon of his predecessor may have contributed to his short-lived presidency.</p>