Forty years ago public outrage about the actions of President Richard Milhous Nixon, lead by his long time liberal critics, forced him to be the first U.S. chief executive to resign the presidency.

You know, I've said it before, Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.

Don't like President Obama's foreign policy? Blame President Richard M. Nixon. Just don't hold your breath waiting for the former to acknowledge the influence of the latter, even as we approach ...

With his "self-pitying" attitude to the press, Barack Obama seems more and more like Richard Nixon every day, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. A fair comparison?

Republicans have been trying to link Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter ever since he started his presidential campaign, ... In fact, Obama sounds more like another 1970s president: Richard Nixon.

Richard Nixon came to office with a rumored secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. Maybe Barack Obama's plan to end the war in Iraq is going to wind up being a secret, too. The presumptive ...

In a comparison that might make Democrats rather uncomfortable, Barack Obama, in certain respects, resembles Richard Nixon. Not the Nixon of Watergate, but the last man elected in the pre-campaign ...

Lately there have been all kinds of comparisons between Obama’s scandal trifecta with Nixon’s conspiracy to cover up his involvement in the 1972 break-in at Democratic headquarters.

In a comparison that might make Democrats rather uncomfortable, Barack Obama, in certain respects, resembles Richard Nixon. Not the Nixon of Watergate, but the last man elected in the pre-campaign ...

Barack Obama speaks during a START Treaty meeting in 2008 as Henry ... after getting President Richard Nixon to resupply Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and brokering the peace ...

"What Richard Nixon tried to do, Barack Obama succeeded in doing," Cruz said. "And now under Joe Biden, it has metastasized, where the institutional resistance of DOJ and the FBI has been worn down." ...

Regardless, the chain of events was highly damaging to Nixon. —Trump suggested former President Barack Obama knew about what he said was an effort in the FBI to undermine his presidential campaign.