During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

U.S. presidents have held the right to pardon crimes since the country’s founding, and they have exercised it often with ...

Preemptive pardons, like the ones Joe Biden issued in his final hours as president, have been used by Donald Trump, Jimmy ...

Joe Biden issued a broad pardon for his son Hunter that not only spared him sentencing on gun and tax charges but also barred ...

It was St. Patrick's Day in 1976, and President Gerald Ford wanted to dance. He'd thrown a state dinner for Liam Cosgrave, the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland. He had fashion designer ...

Army major and presidential aide was in the room for key moments of Gerald Ford's presidency, including first lady Betty Ford ...

USS Gerald R. Ford The first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford is named after the 38th US president who took office after President Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate Scandal.

In hindsight, Watergate and the controversy that followed ... raised two victory signs — and he was gone. President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon a month later to his own political demise, and ...

The most famous example is Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, who never fully acknowledged his role in Watergate. Then there was George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon Casper Weinberger ...

Through an official communication issued yesterday, the U.S. Navy announced the official names of its future fifth and sixth nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the Gerald R. Ford class, namely CVN ...

Steven Ford, the son of late President Gerald Ford, delivered the eulogy Thursday that his father had written for late President Jimmy Carter. Steven Carter reflected on Carter's death with ...