Richard Nixon’s legacy is enormous, and evolving. Watergate, the crisis generated by criminal acts tied to the White House, ended his presidency. That capped a grotesque violent decade, ...

President Richard M. Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon are shown standing together in the East Room of the White House in this Aug. 9, 1974 file photo, where he made a farewell address to the members ...

Richard Nixon’s legacy is enormous, and evolving. Watergate, the crisis generated by criminal acts tied to the White House, ended his presidency. That capped a grotesque, violent decade ...

WASHINGTON - Fifty years ago, newly installed President Gerald Ford simply got tired of questions about the legal fate of resigned predecessor Richard Nixon. So, on Sept. 8, 1974, Ford went ahead ...