Richard Nixon

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Marshal who served Nixon with subpoenas dead at 81

AP News 52 days ago

US marshal who served Nixon with subpoenas at Calif. home dead at 81 A U.S. marshal who served former President Richard Nixon with two Watergate-related subpoenas at his California home has died. Gaylord L. Campbell's daughter says he died Thursday at Tarzana ...

FILE: William Safire, Speechwriter of President Nixon Dead At 79

Getty Images 54 days ago

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 28: (AFP OUT) (FILE PHOTO) William Safire of the New York Times and former senior White House speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, speaks during a taping of "Meet the Press" at the NBC studios October 28, 2007 in Washington, ...

Film tells story of America's famous whistleblower

AP News 56 days ago

Documentary on Ellsberg, leaker of Pentagon Papers, told as political thriller, love story Four decades after he stunned the nation by leaking the top-secret Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg walks the halls of the past in his dreams. ...

Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

AP News 60 days ago

Lincoln, Grant, others have slept in Pittsburgh _ but not at once; G-20 poses a new challenge The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War. ...

Nixon dug deep for dirt on Ted Kennedy

AP News 84 days ago

Nixon sought Secret Service informer and other means to catch Ted Kennedy cheating on wife President Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch Kennedy cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to recruit Secret Service agents ...

Who needs a smoking gun? Here's the hot pants tape

AP News 84 days ago

The hot pants tape: Nixon and aides size up Kennedy's behavior and wife's eye-popping dress On April 9, 1971, President Richard Nixon conferred with aides on how to get Ted Kennedy followed, or "covered," in hopes of catching the senator doing something ...

Nixon enlisted secret service to spy on Ted Kennedy

AFP American Edition 84 days ago

Ted Kennedy, who died Tuesday, so enraged Richard Nixon that the disgraced president pushed in 1971 for snooping on the senator for proof he cheated on his wife, according to once-secret recordings. And Nixon, who secretly taped some 3,700 hours of his ...

Nixon and Kennedy

AP News 84 days ago

FILE -- In this Feb. 23, 1969 file photo, then President Richard Nixon shakes hands with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., left, before leaving Andrews Air Force Base for Europe. First lady Pat Nixon, head turned, chats with Sen. Robert Byrd, D.W.Va., at ...

Allende seeks Brazil documents on '73 Chile coup

AP News 94 days ago

Daughter of ousted Chilean leader Allende asks Brazil to open archives about Chile's 1973 coup The daughter of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende requested via Twitter on Tuesday that Brazil open any secret archives that could shed light on any role it ...

Nixon, Brazil leader conferred on Allende ouster: documents

AFP American Edition 95 days ago

US President Richard Nixon consulted Brazil's President Emilio Garrastazu Medici on ousting Chilean President Salvador Allende almost two years before the leftist leader was deposed, according to newly declassified US documents. According to documents published Sunday by the Washington-based independent group the ...

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