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The House initiated an impeachment process against Nixon in February 1974, authorizing the Judiciary Committee to investigate whether grounds existed to impeach him of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Forty years ago, in mid-May 1974, Elizabeth Drew, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, wrote this in her journal: "Rumors went around the Capitol today that the President was resigning." ...

President Richard Nixon resigned 40 years ago today, saying during his announcement that it would begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." The 37th president faced ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, including former President Richard Nixon's own appointees, ruled 40 years ago on Aug. 5, 8-0, that Nixon must turn over 64 tapes of White House conversations to the Watergate ...

President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon 42 years ago today generated a national controversy, but in recent years, some of the pardon’s biggest critics have changed their tunes on the ...

Uncertain of his own mind, badgered by his own advisers and anxious about the implications of his act, President Gerald R. Ford startled the political world 40 years ago Monday. In deciding to pardon ...

The future certainly must have appeared gloomy to anyone looking ahead in 1974. But back then, as songwriter Bob Dylan wrote, “The Times They Are A-Changin’ “ America’s withdrawal from Vietnam was ...

Political journalist Elizabeth Drew chronicled the events of 1974 in her recently reissued Washington Journal. She tells NPR's Robert Siegel that... 40 Years After Watergate, A Look Back At Nixon's ...