This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

Richard Nixon was the first former vice president to ascend to the presidency via election since Martin van Buren. After losing an extremely close race against John F. Kennedy in 1960, he lost a ...

Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.” Richard Nixon served as President of the United States from 1969 until he resigned from office in 1974.

In 1957, then-Representative Kenneth Keating (R-NY) hosted Vice President Richard Nixon on his interview program to talk about international affairs and communism, among other topics. This was ...

And there was the very first vice president who debated on TV as the nominee of his party, Richard Nixon, whose performance in 1960 may have cost him an election and cast a shadow on the era of ...