It took two years from a short item in the papers about some comic burglary in Washington to the blinding headline, 'Nixon Resigns ... and threatened to resign. Now, if he'd done that and ...

Nixon covered up misdeeds long enough to be re-elected in a 1972 landslide — only later to resign before his looming impeachment, when even his administration flunkies could no longer mask his ...

It was on that night that Nixon went before television cameras in the Oval Office and announced he would resign the following day. The news stunned the US and the world, in the midst of the Cold ...