Nixon

Unlike Trump, former U.S. President Richard Nixon went to great lengths to cover up plans to assassinate or topple foreign leaders.

In an earlier age, the Democratic and Republican front-runners reserved their sharpest criticism for the Soviet Union and treated each other with respect.

Pardoning Trump, like Nixon before him, would be a disaster.

A glimpse back at the beginning. Nixon and Kissinger’s vision of friendship with China is being put to rest by Trump administration.

A 1972 memo downplaying the slaughter of Hutus in Burundi stirred an angry scrawled response from the president.

Successive U.S. administrations failed to heed the lessons of a forgotten counterinsurgency success story from Vietnam.

Nixon and Reagan managed to negotiate with Mao and Gorbachev because they had personal chemistry, common goals, and control of their domestic politics.

There are plenty of lessons to draw from America's diplomatic gambit in Korea — just probably not the ones you think.

Is the president looking more like a dictator after six months in the White House?

Donald Trump Jr.’s actions might rise to the level of criminal conspiracy against the republic, but it probably wouldn't even matter.

Donald Trump’s abandonment of human rights is a repudiation of the country’s founding principles.

As investigations close in on the White House, the pressure will inevitably take a toll on its diplomatic agenda.

What worked for the president on the campaign trail is now becoming his greatest foreign-policy weakness.

When Richard Nixon and Ariel Sharon made U-turns, they made sense. Trump's don't.

A paranoid president. Scandal upon scandal. International credibility shattered. Why 2017 will be 1973 all over again, but more dangerous.

John Dean, who kept a list of political enemies, says he has never seen a statement so "nasty."

The real question for the new administration is whether disruption and unpredictability can be hitched to constructive strategic goals.

“You didn’t see me whining after I lost the rigged 1960 election, did you?” asks the ghost of the 37th president.