Aug 26, 2013
Vice-President Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon
Former Vice President Spiro Agnew was told by President Nixon’s chief of staff to resign, to “go quietly…or else.”
by David Robb
It’s not every President of the United States who plots to assassinate his own Vice President, but...
Jul 8, 2013
Henry Kissinger wormed his way into Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign by volunteering to act as the Republican’s mole at the Paris peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War. Kissinger’s betrayal of President Johnson’s trust helped secure the election for Nixon and...
Feb 4, 2013
Lt. William Calley
Mini-My Lai massacres happened nearly every day in Vietnam, and thousands of war crimes were committed there by both sides in the conflict. In 1971, while the war was still raging, dozens of former American soldiers and Marines stepped forward to confess to...
Jul 30, 2012
Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen
Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen was the Justice Department’s No. 1 Watergate investigator—and he regularly sneaked the Nixon White House privileged information that allowed the Nixon administration to forestall the...
Apr 30, 2012
Fidel Castro and Richard Nixon
A “Top Secret” CIA report accuses then Vice President Nixon of shaping U.S. foreign policy to benefit a wealthy campaign contributor, a right-wing zealot who championed the assassination of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
by Don Fulsom
One of...
Mar 6, 2011
Between March of 1969 and August of 1973, President Nixon illegally bombed Cambodia, causing over three-million tons of bombs to rain downs on the neutral country and the deaths of an estimated half-million Cambodian citizens.
by Don Fulsom
In mid-...
Jan 10, 2011
Daniel Ellsberg (left)
The WikiLeaks disclosures of top-secret government documents recall the time in 1971 when the intrepid Daniel Ellsberg released the “Pentagon Papers” to The New York Times to hasten the end of the Vietnam War.
by Don Fulsom
In the summer of 1971,...
Sep 17, 2010
Air Force Gen. John Lavelle
President Richard Nixon’s criminalities and cover-ups continue to be exposed, 36 years after the Watergate scandal forced him from office.
by Don Fulsom
Recently declassified tapes and documents from President Nixon’s archives exploded a...
Oct 14, 2009
July 10, 2008
Richard Nixon
Former President Richard Nixon beat his wife, Pat, before, during, and after their White House years. Along the way, he sucker-punched a long list of aides and others who miffed him.
by Don Fulsom
Richard Nixon was certainly one of our most...
Oct 9, 2009
April 15, 2007
Howard Hughes in the 1940s with his new Boeing Army Pursuit Plane in Inglewood, California.
In the early years of the Nixon presidency, billionaire Howard Hughes bribed Nixon with $100,000 in cash. When Hughes's secret lobbyist Larry O'Brien became Democratic...
