On November 27, 1973, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was used for the first time. Gerald Ford’s ascent to the position of Vice President of the United States resulted from the political turbulence that marked the early 1970s. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, then-Vice…
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On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during one of the holiest days of the Jewish people. The Yom Kippur War marked a significant turn in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Their goal…
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On June 20, 1972, the most famous, or infamous, recording in White House history was created by President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Halderman in the Oval Office. At 2:30 in the morning a few days before,” The Washington Post recalls, “five men…
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