On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon, with impeachment proceedings underway, announced that he would resign the office of president effective at noon the next day.

Ed Cox — the son-in-law of Richard Nixon — for the first time is publicly discussing the ex president’s disgraced exit from office 50 years ago following the Watergate scandal, an… ...

The resignation of Richard Nixon was the culmination of two years of swirling controversy that began with a burglary at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in June 1972.

The impacts of the Watergate scandal and former President Richard Nixon’s resignation 50 years ago today still linger five decades later.

All three branches of the federal government had been engaged, including actors within the executive branch who saw their duty to the law more than to the chief executive who had put them in office.

At the time, Kenneth Bickers was a young teenager spending the summer at his grandparents’ house in Cheyenne. In the days leading up to Nixon’s resignation, Bickers would spend his mornings watching ...

The resignation of President Richard Nixon had some repercussions at Expo ’74. First, Expo officials oversaw the removal of several Nixon photos at the U.S. Pavilion.

Description. Biographer and historian John Farrell talked about his book, "Richard Nixon: The Life," and the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation.