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President of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
Donald Trump’s presidency is the subject of extensive allegations and watchdog reports asserting an unprecedented scale of self-enrichment and transactional politics; multiple recent analyses claim hi...
Public opinion polls from late 2024–early 2025 show large shares of Americans saying Joe Biden will be judged poorly by history: Gallup found 54% expect him to be “below average” or “poor” (a net scor...
No U.S. president has lawfully pardoned someone for a state crime; the Constitution limits the presidential pardon to “offences against the United States,” and legal authorities and government guides ...
Public opinion and expert surveys show Donald Trump ranks low on measures of moral authority compared with many modern presidents: a 2025 Gallup analysis finds Trump rated worse on ethics than most re...
Multiple contemporary news reports and legal analyses record that Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York, making him the first U.S. president to b...
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires the President to notify Congress within of deploying U.S. armed forces into hostilities or certain situations abroad and limits continued military action to ...
President Nixon did not directly order the Ohio National Guard to Kent State; the Guard was activated by Governor James Rhodes after local officials requested help amid riots . Nixon privately used di...
Available reporting documents a large volume of allegations, watchdog tracking and legal actions tied to Donald Trump’s administrations — trackers claim more than $2.9 billion in “documented” cases an...
Ronald Reagan used an explicitly racist slur in a 1971 taped phone call with President Richard Nixon—calling African U.N. delegates “monkeys”—a passage restored to public release in 2019 and documente...
Public opinion and some polls show a significant share of Americans expect Joe Biden’s presidency to be judged negatively — Gallup reports a net score of –35 for Biden vs. Richard Nixon’s –42 in a Jan...
Several past U.S. presidents and high-level officials have faced serious legal exposures—including impeachment, criminal investigations, pleas, and convictions of associates—but , making his convictio...
Measured against the modern record-keeping of journalists and fact‑checkers, Donald J. Trump is extraordinarily well documented for making false or misleading public statements: fact‑checking projects...
The major legal end to broad undergraduate student deferments came in 1971 when Congress (via HR 6531) and President Nixon moved to eliminate new undergraduate (II‑S) deferments and reclassify incomin...
The provides two distinct constitutional paths that could lead to being removed or displaced: automatic succession upon death, resignation, or impeachment conviction (Section 1), and a disability/remo...
Donald J. Trump is the first former U.S. president to be criminally indicted, facing multiple federal and state prosecutions whose outcomes remain subject to ongoing litigation and trial scheduling . ...
Yes — U.S. presidents have at times refused to enforce, ignored, or taken actions that effectively contradicted Supreme Court decisions and judicial orders. Historical examples most commonly cited are...
Richard Nixon’s Watergate and Donald Trump’s legal troubles share core elements—abuse of power, obstruction, and political cover‑ups—but they differ sharply in scope, legal outcomes, and the instituti...
Apollo 11 returned 21.6 kilograms of lunar material — roughly 50 discrete rock specimens, dust (regolith) and two short core tubes — that have since been split between NASA’s curated research collecti...
Student deferments for the Vietnam-era draft were effectively limited by Congress in 1971, when President Nixon signed draft-reform legislation that ended the automatic II‑S undergraduate deferment fo...
Donald Trump is the only U.S. president in modern history to be criminally charged and later convicted on felony counts, but his convictions and many indictments occurred after his White House term; n...