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.

This, experts say, allows Trump to embrace corporate and individual gifts in a more brazen way that mirrors another president he has been compared to — Richard Nixon. While nearly half a century ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

For 22 years, Richard Nixon had campaigned relentlessly. Now, at the zenith of his career, he had to govern. One Harvard professor came with Nixon to Washington in 1969, serving as the president ...

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

Editor’s note: This article is one in a five-part series looking back on the life of one of Duke’s most infamous alumni — Richard Nixon. Read the previous installments on Nixon’s childhood ...

A showdown between Congress and President Richard Nixon in the 1970s led to a law laying out specific rules around ...

Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

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

The Nixon Presidential Library & Museum held its annual commemoration marking President Richard Nixon’s birthday – delayed this year by one day in honor of the National Day of Mourning that ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...