Richard Nixon was vice president under President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. In 1960, while still vice president, Nixon ran for president and lost to John F. Kennedy.

For the next eight years, Vice President Richard Nixon executed his duties well. While the president was recovering from a heart attack in 1955, Nixon used every opportunity to praise Ike and the ...

If Trump were to pull this off, he, too, would change the course of history—isolating China, guaranteeing European security, and solidifying American global primacy. But the plan—known as a “reverse ...

Richard Milhous Nixon, Law School ‘37, is the only U.S. president Duke has produced in its century. “Few came so far, so fast, so alone,” biographer John A. Farrell wrote about the man who ...

A look back at other sitting vice presidents who were running for the top job and debating on TV against the nominee of the opposition party: Gore in 2000, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Nixon in 1960.

Vance “is as directly engaged and active as any vice president that I can remember,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told USA TODAY. At 40, Vance is the youngest vice president since Richard Nixon.

The first vice president eligible to live in the home would’ve been Gerald Ford, but he never got the opportunity because he was unexpectedly named president after Richard Nixon resigned.