Douglass K. Daniel

FILE – Alexander Butterfield, testifies, July 16, 1973 before the Senate Watergate Committee. Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. (AP Photo/File)

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99

March 9, 2026 at 3:27 p.m.

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room...

FILE – Former FBI and CIA head William H. Webster speaks to reporters in Washington, Oct. 25, 2002. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

Former FBI and CIA Director William H. Webster dies at 101

August 11, 2025 at 6:03 a.m.

William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his family announced Friday. He was...

FILE – White House press secretary Ron Nessen speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington, April 10, 1975. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs, File)

Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Ford, dies at 90

March 14, 2025 at 6:46 p.m.

Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity that the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has...

Jon Meacham’s new biography of Abraham Lincoln explores the ‘Big Lie’ of his day

October 25, 2022 at 1:44 p.m.

Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While we tend to contemplate "The Great Emancipator" as fully formed well before he became...

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