Photographer Griff Davis captured the first meeting of Vice President Richard Nixon and Martin Luther King ... Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah invited the Kings. Davis, an African American ...

Nixon was attracted to the theories of Richard Herrnstein and Arthur Jensen ... most notably Gamal Abdel Nasser and Kwame Nkrumah. But his reluctance to do more, sooner for African Americans ...

Last week, the historian Timothy Naftali revealed a 1971 conversation between Richard Nixon, then the president ... quietly backed the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. As independent African ...

As a personal gift from President Eisenhower, Nixon presented Nkrumah with a Steuben glass cup engraved with figures representing the four freedoms. By week’s end Richard Nixon had racked up a ...

Sure enough, in 1957 Nkrumah succeeded in passing legislation ... including Vice President Richard Nixon (according to historian Martin Meredith's The Fate of Africa, Nixon infamously asked ...

“The right sort of sports fan,” is how McGeorge Bundy greeted the news in 1973 that Gerald Ford had been selected as vice president by Richard Nixon. Ford succeeded Spiro Agnew, who had been ...