Rain pattered on the sidewalk outside of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Wednesday morning, as about 50 people gathered inside to mourn the death of President George H.W.

The April 30, 1973, calls with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were captured on a secret recording system that Nixon used to tape 3,700 hours of conversations between February 1971 and July 1973.

NIXON vs. BUSH....Matt Yglesias, riffing off a David Broder column, wonders why the public demanded Richard Nixon's resignation three decades ago but hasn't risen up with the same fury to demand ...

In the 1992 presidential election, President George HW Bush, facing Democrat Bill Clinton and businessman Ross Perot, made a notable mistake by checking his watch during the second debate.

George H.W. Bush and Richard Nixon in D.C. on March 11, 1992, at an event related to the Nixon Library. Luke Frazza/AFP/Getty Images ...

George H W Bush—then a Texas congressman—arranged for his 22-year-old son, who was then a pilot in the National Guard, to meet Tricia Nixon at a gala in honor of the Apollo 8 spaceflight crew.

George W. Bush's quest to overcome a weak economy and win a second term offers some interesting parallels with previous presidents. The most obvious is with his father, who lost reelection in 1992 ...

"Our father believed in George H.W. Bush. Richard Nixon kicked off George Bush’s campaign for Congress in 1966, encouraged him to run for Senate in 1970, entrusted him as his U.N. Ambassador and ...

It had been George H W Bush, then working in the Nixon administration, who had invited his son, then a pilot in training with the Texas Air National Guard, to meet the president's eldest daughter ...

Almost immediately, the program encountered problems. Under the administration of George H.W. Bush, the plan seemed almost an afterthought, with little care given to how money was being spent.

In a slew of odd moments in this troubled election came the one this week when top advisors to George W. Bush began invoking the name of Richard Nixon. Nixon, they have said time and again ...

Family spokesman Jim McGrath announced Bush's death in a statement. Social media posts from former presidents, celebrities and world leaders soon followed.