WASHINGTON — President Richard Nixon and his 1972 re-election campaign tried to tie Democrats to the mob, gay liberation and even slavery, according to newly released papers and tapes betraying ...

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President Donald Trump has named his choice to succeed Tommy Tuberville in the United States Senate. In a Saturday night ...

George C. Richardson (1931-2021) was a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1960s and 1970s.

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ELAINE SHANNON. Correspondent TIME Magazine Washington, D.C. Elaine Shannon is a correspondent in the TIME Magazine's Washington, D.C. bureau. Since 1976, she has covered criminal ...

In the spring of 1979, a someday-newspaper reporter received the title, “Most Pessimistic” member of his graduating class by a margin bigger than Richard Nixon topped South Dakota George McGovern ...

WASHINGTON — As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?” ...