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

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.

For 50 years, the only Super Bowl the Chiefs had ever won was the last one they played here. So the storylines of that 23-7 ...

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, ...

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.

Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

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