Fifty years ago, March 1, 1974, marked the beginning of the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. That’s the day the grand jury’s indictment was made public, naming seven of Nixon’s top aides in the ...

“I’ve found the man,” Richard Nixon told his personal staff in 1967. “I’ve found the heavyweight!” The President was not, of course, speaking of sport but of politics, and his eye was not on the ...

The first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges. As U.S.

Best we could tell, there was a dinner last night at the Georgetown Club to honor John Mitchell, the Nixon confidant and U.S. attorney general who served 18 months in prison for Watergate-related ...