Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a ...

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

Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford faced off in 1976 in a bitter campaign but later bonded as few presidents have — and made a pact to speak at each other’s funerals. By Peter Baker Peter Baker ...

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

President Richard Nixon named the Clinch River Breeder Reactor ... National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

The new official White House bio for Trump reads more like a campaign pitch. And it opens with a falsehood, claiming he won a ...

From left are President George H.W. Bush and former Presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Richard Nixon. “This is probably one of my better-known photographs,” Kennerly said. “It's the first ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

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