During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his farewell from the White House,

Trump and Nixon are far from the only presidents to rake in money for inaugurations. Twelve years after Nixon's $4 million ceremony, Ronald Reagan set a record with a $20 million swearing-in that featured more elaborate celebrations, according to ethics watchdog Public Citizen.

Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is just depressing.

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is on hold for now, on the order of a federal judge.

Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for president. That year, they collaborated

Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law Congress enacted in the years after Richard Nixon’s corrupt presidency and strengthened in 2022 to defend against “the next Donald Trump who turned out to be Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized, despite a federal law forbidding it.

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the Constitution.

The announcement of the freeze set off panic and confusion across the country. The result could be a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power, with the Supreme Court serving as referee.

The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars after it was temporarily blocked by a federal judge

After watching Gore Vidal’s play An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972) Jules Feiffer unexpectedly found himself “feeling sorry for Nixon…. Just because of the overkill and the setting up of false terms.