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

Instead, it was Richard Nixon who gave a name to this type of extreme ... “They’ll believe any threat that Nixon makes ...

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 ...

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

A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive ...

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 ...

On the eve of President Joe Biden's departure from the White House, we've asked historian Douglas Brinkley for his assessment of our 46th president: When President Richard Nixon died in 1994, most ...

Half a century later, it welcomed an estimated crowd of 4,000 to see then-Vice President Richard Nixon speak during a rally for U.S. Rep. Clifford Case. This month it was listed for $6.325 million ...

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

Lee. Some pardons are seen as being more motivated by self-interest. President Richard Nixon pardoned influential US labour leader Jimmy Hoffa, who had been convicted of jury tampering and fraud ...

It might require amending the Constitution, but the United States should rein in the pardoning power of the president, the ...

Biden has spent more than 50 years in public office, making his mark on the national map in 1972, President Richard Nixon's landslide re-election year, when he beat a Republican incumbent in a ...