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In 1964 and 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called on Americans' “better angels” with speeches on the “Great Society” and immigration. His successor, Richard Nixon, asked for support in 1969 from the…

Irwin Gellman re-examined the 1960 presidential campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, and the close outcome of the election. The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted this event at…

Hofstra University U.S. history professor Carolyn Eisenberg talked about the Vietnam War during the Nixon/Kissinger years. This virtual event was hosted by the Wilson Center in Washington,…

Bob Bostock, a head speechwriter for George W. Bush administration EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, talked about the EPA’s origins and the environmental politics and policies of…

Attorney Rufus Edmisten served as the deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee, which was chaired by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin. In his book, That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Hell Politics,…

President Nixon’s daughter, Tricia, married Edward Cox on June 12, 1971, in the first Rose Garden wedding. Their reception followed in the East Room. The White House Naval Photographic…

In his first address to the nation on Vietnam, President Richard Nixon proposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam as long as the North Vietnamese removed their forces as…

The Federalist Society hosts a legal panel to discuss recently revealed documents used by prosecutors investigating Watergate and suspected wrongdoing by President NIxon and his administration.…

Former House Newt Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) paid tribute to former President Richard Nixon’s legacy at the Grand Strategy Summit, hosted by the Richard Nixon Foundation. He praised the former…

Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, traveled around the world in July of 1956 with stops in Hawaii, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, and Turkey. Highlights…

Geoff Shepard was the youngest lawyer on President Nixon’s White House staff and is the author of The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President. He gave his account of the…

Dwight Chapin talked about his years with Richard Nixon. He worked on Mr. Nixon’s 1962 California campaign for governor and was with him in the White House until the Watergate scandal led…

John Roy Price, a senior domestic policy adviser to President Nixon, gave a behind-the-scenes view of the 37th president’s domestic agenda -- which included guaranteed family income, a national…

Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein talked about their reporting for the Washington Post of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building on…

American University professor Joseph Campbell taught a class about the 1972 Watergate scandal and, what he calls, “the myth of heroic journalism.” He argued that the unraveling of the Watergate scandal…

John Dean taught a class about Watergate and the discovery of the Nixon White House taping system. In June 1973, during testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, Mr. Dean implicated…

Jill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate Assistant Special Prosecutor, and Geoff Shepard, a former deputy to the Nixon administration’s Special White House Counsel, talked about the 50th…

Dwight Chapin, an aide to former President Richard Nixon, took part in a Library of Congress panel discussion marking the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the Democratic National…

Viewers called in to give their opinions on Watergate’s legacy and trust in government.

Dan Balz talked about the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the impact it had on trust in government.