It's hard not to begin this talk with one of the most expressive of human sounds: a long, happy sigh, followed by two cheers for Gerald Ford. Not three. Not just yet. All incoming presidents get ...

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

It was on that night that Nixon went before television cameras in the Oval Office and announced he would resign the following day. The news stunned the US and the world, in the midst of the Cold ...

There remains, however, one disconnect. Nixon covered up misdeeds long enough to be re-elected in a 1972 landslide — only later to resign before his looming impeachment, when even his ...

Visitors read about Watergate and Nixon’s resignation during a visit to The Richard Nixon Library & Museum in Yorba Linda last year. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG ...

And the “smoking gun tape” — where it sure sounds like Nixon ordered the FBI to abandon its investigation of the Watergate break-in, which led directly to his resignation — was misread and ...

This clip shows a portion of the swearing-in ceremony of Gerald Ford as president of the United States, after the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Ford, who had been a prominent participant in the Palm Springs convention, was selected by Nixon to replace Agnew after his resignation in ignominy in 1973 for a single felony charge of tax evasion.