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.

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

In 1974, President Richard Nixon delivered an address from the Oval Office, during which he announced his decision to resign from the Office of the President of the United States.

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 ...