John Wrory Ficklin was 7 when he learned that his father, the son of a slave, was important. It was 1963, and the nation was ...

Decisions about war and military interventions have shifted from Congress to the White House, despite the clear wording of ...

Decisions about war and military interventions have shifted from Congress to the White House, despite the clear wording of ...

Gerald Ford is known for many things, including his, shall we say, "interesting" cottage cheese toppings. But his favorite ...

From informal amanuenses to institutional gatekeepers, the secretary to the president evolved alongside executive power — eventually yielding its authority to the modern White House chief of ...

As a deputy assistant to the president, he supervised Richard Nixon's taping system that had been secretly placed in four ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon ...

Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon White House aide who uncovered the Watergate tapes, died at the age of 99.

Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide who exposed the recordings that revealed the Watergate scandal, has died. He ...

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who revealed to Congress that there was a secret taping system in the White House, died on Monday at age 99 ...