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.

Carter made human rights the cornerstone of his foreign policy, while the Obama team has put that issue on the back burner. In fact, Obama sounds more like another 1970s president: Richard Nixon.

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?

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 ...

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.

I have lived under 14 different presidents. If I could, with a wave of my hand, I would bring Nixon back as our president now ...

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.

While Barack Obama may not share the Nixon pedigree, he and his White House are the closest thing to the Nixon regime of any that we have seen since Watergate.

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 ...

Richard Nixon left the White House in disgrace 40 years ago this month, but the war he launched against journalists has continued under Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and other recent presidents ...