President Richard M. Nixon sought to fire the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation, but his attorney general refused and resigned.

In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ...

President Donald Trump, beginning his voyage last month into his second four-year term in the White House, has assembled ...

A flurry of seemingly illegal orders and firings could tee up the Supreme Court to cement a vast expansion of Presidential ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

Trump’s Republican administration had framed the proposed halt as a brief delay rather than an impoundment. Challengers said even a short pause could be deeply harmful and unconstitutional. A showdown ...

The law grew out of decisions by the administration of Richard Nixon to withhold, or impound, highway and water control funds in a bid to control inflation. The act allows a president to withhold ...

Richard Nixon tried the same thing Donald Trump is trying in not spending money Congress has already approved. It did not end well.