The news that the U.S. government has been recording data from phone calls and Internet activity, broken by former CIA employee Edward Snowden, is just the latest in a long line of legendary leaks. Here are some of the most notorious leaks in U.S. history. Full story
A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty — real and Hollywood — soaked up sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course. Full story
The comparisons between President Obama and President Richard Nixon continue to persist. Chris Hayes explains why the guy who ordered burglary and bugged offices is much much different than the current POTUS.
Must-Read Op-Eds: Mika Brzezinski reads from a Washington Post editorial on reports the IRS overly scrutinized Tea Party groups and conservative organizations heavily with regard to requests for tax-exempt status. Brzezinski also reads from Joe Klein's latest Time piece on the same issue. Vanity Fai
Steve Kornacki looks at the history of Richard Nixon’s comeback and fall, and the shifting public opinions of former presidents over time.
Rachel Maddow reports on new evidence of Richard Nixon acting to prolong the Vietnam War to help win office, and points out that while Democrats have correctly recognized that the war in Iraq was a mistake based on lies, Republicans are busy trying to rewrite history rather that learn its lessons.
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, shares details from this weekend’s issues which focuses on books breaking ground on the way we think about American presidents. The National Memo’s Joe Conason also joins the discussion to talk about the tense relationship between Dwight Eisen
A wreath is laid on honor of Former President Richard Nixon during the 40th anniversary of the homecoming of Vietnam POWs at Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California May 23, 2013. Two hundred POWs are attending a three-day event to commemorate a May 23, 1973 dinner ho
Edward Nixon, brother of former President Richard Nixon, stands during the 40th anniversary of the homecoming of Vietnam POWs at Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California May 23, 2013. Two hundred POWs are attending a three-day event to commemorate a May 23, 1973 dinne
In this combo photo, U.S. President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon have light moments at a huge stone elephant, left, on Feb. 24, 1972; while at right, Nixon's grandson Christopher Cox and his wife Andrea Catsimatidisat visit the same spot at the Ming Tomb, north of Beijing, on May 4, 2013.
Former US President Richard Nixon speaks at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, in this May 20, 1987 file photo. Nixon, a divisive figure in U.S. politics who became the only sitting president ever to leave office when he resigned over the Watergate scandal, would be turning 100 years old this
