In the annals of presidential campaigns that were literally saved by their candidate’s dogs, September 23 is a red-letter day in history – at least if you are a fan of Franklin Roosevelt or Richard ...

On the 100th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s birth, we look back at the long-forgotten four-legged friend who helped save the future president’s political career in 1952. Checkers and Vice President ...

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...

“What I am going to do — and this is unprecedented in the history of American politics — is give to this television and radio audience a complete financial history. Everything I’ve earned, everything ...

Liberals strain to understand why so many blue-collar whites have made their home in the Republican Party. Yes, the GOP better connects with this group on social and lifestyle levels. Still, with ...

It's a small world, and the political one is even smaller. The political story that drove much of the week was the release of an internal report commissioned by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) that ...

Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe star as Richard and Pat Nixon in screenwriter Douglas McGrath's play, which revisits the then-VP candidate's famous 1952 speech that forever changed the role of ...

In 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon gave his historic half-hour nationally televised “Checkers” speech where he worked to answer to charges he abused political expense funds. The result of the speech ...