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Richard Nixon 'wanted to be a good prince'

Author looks into the psyche of the anxious introvert who was 37th president.
“Nixon's become kind of a cartoon to us," says author Evan Thomas. "We think he's wicked and evil. I just didn't believe that.”
National Archive/Newsmakers

Fed money played no role in Watergate

Apr 4, 2012
At the Federal Reserve's latest meeting, only two of 10 voting committee members support additional stimulus. The Fed inspector general, meanwhile, released a report that Fed money didn't contribute to the Watergate burglary, or to Saddam Hussein and Iraq getting weapons in the 1980s.