One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
A North Jersey mansion listed for $6.325 million was once home to a stockbroker who donated hundreds of acres to what is now High Point State Park.
The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good will was revived.
Nixon died of a stroke in 1994, surviving Pat by exactly 10 months. He and his wife are buried side by side on the grounds of his childhood home. His gravestone is a simple black slab, the words from his inauguration speech carved in gold:
The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as the backbone of democracy to Richard Nixon’s declaration that “the
Biden issued preemptive pardons, while Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters. Over the past several weeks, two U.S. presidents use their executive privileges to pardon thousands of people.
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 ...
Elders Gary E. Stevenson and Gerrit W. Gong attended President Donald Trump's second inauguration, a longstanding practice for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sains.
Recently, pop stars including Beyoncé and Lady Gaga have sung at presidential inaugurations, but it wasn’t always a platform for chart-topping performers.
Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...
It was Sept. 6, 1960. The Gate City was one of many stops for John F. Kennedy during the Western states tour of his presidential campaign. Accompanying him during his visit was Idaho’s U.S. Senator, Frank Church, who’d nominated Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles two months earlier.
For decades, presidents have issued executive orders expanding and strengthening diversity programs within the federal workforce – Trump revoked a batch on Tuesday