In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the ...

President Trump's efforts to cut federal programs and fire watchdogs are drawing attention to 1970s-era government reforms.

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In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), chair of the Environment Subcommittee, told POLITICO’s E&E News he is in the early stages of ...

The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Fed Chair is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, ...

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

MARY CHILDS, BYLINE: In 1971, President Richard Nixon began secretly recording basically everything. KENNY MALONE, BYLINE: Thirty-three years later, virtually all of those tapes were publicly ...