Richard Nixon

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened On this evening in 1974, President Richard Nixon announced his intent to resign the following day. Where Was The Market The next day, when Nixon actually resigned, the Dow Jones fell 1...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On April 28, 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon encouraged Americans to buy stocks. Where The Market Was: The Dow finished the day at 724.33. The S&P 500 traded at 80.27. What Else...

Each day, Benzinga will take a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On Dec. 6, 1974, the two-year bear market finally bottomed, marking a 43% decline for the Dow Jones Industrial Average in less than two years. Where Was The Market? The S&...

The crypto community — but most of all, the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) community — is pointing out the disastrous consequences of the Richard Nixon administration's decision to take the dollar off of the gold standard in 1971, exactly 50 years ago. What Happened:...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered price freezes on wages, rent and goods. Where The Market Was: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 888.95 and the S...

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Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin is a towering figure in the nation’s financial history, in part because of his long service in the role during the terms of five presidents from Truman to Nixon. But on a December day in 1965, when he was summoned to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day 47 years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon placed a national freeze on wages, prices and rent. Where The Market Was The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 888.95 and...

President Donald Trump’s insults, threats and challenges to journalists have led to questions of whether the Commander-in-Chief respects the First Amendment. Trump — a president who’s quick to shout “fake news!” on Twitter or directly at a reporter, despite his own...

Every day is the anniversary of something significant, because history. But Aug. 28 is particularly poignant in the many ways it marks moments in the American experience, each of which resonates today. Consider what happened on, as they say, this day in history: Emmett Till, Aug. 28, 1955 Emmett...

President Donald Trump, perhaps practicing pardoning himself should wrongdoing emerge from the investigation into his Russia dealings, isn't the first Oval Office occupant to exercise this sweeping power. With Hurricane Harvey bearing down on Texas, Trump on Friday night pardoned infamous...

The story is as old as journalism: the tension between a public servant’s urge to do the right thing while breaking the law, spilling secrets in the process and paying a price when it gets published. Reality Winner, a private defense contractor with security clearance, sits in jail today...

President Donald Trump has made America, for the first time since the Vietnam war, grate again — grating the nerves of the rest of the free world. The Pew Research Center published a study showing that the world’s view of the United States has plunged from 64 percent favorability to 49...

President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey might not be Watergate in Russian, according to one political science professor, but it could have the same effect on the public's view of government. Watergate — the scandal surrounding a break-in at Democratic National...

The historian hired to repair the Richard Nixon Library and Museum’s problems with the truth sees something similar in the current president: a sense of paranoia and frustration that might spill over into bad decisions. Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian and a clinical associate...