Nixon. Nixon resigned the presidency in August 1974. Here we unpack the reasons behind Nixon's historic resignation, including the involvement of the U.S. attorney general and recall the ...

John Dean, former White House counsel for the Nixon administration, said he believes former President Nixon “would have survived” the Watergate scandal if the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling ...

The resignation of Richard Nixon was the culmination of two years of swirling controversy that began with a burglary at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in June 1972.