John Dean will discuss “The Nixon Defense” at Politics and Prose this Friday at 7 p.m.

Having hatcheted to death their gag of consistently embarrassing Theodore Roosevelt, the Washington Nationals announced that for the 2013 season, the Presidents’ Races in the middle of the fourth inning will add a new competitor.

Did Led Zeppelin play a secret show in Wheaton the same day Richard Nixon was sworn into office? Find out in this week’s Popcorn & Candy.

A family in the quiet, wooded Wesley Heights neighborhood in Northwest D.C. is upsetting its neighbors with the construction of a backyard ice rink, but there’s very little they can do to block it.

In his first public statement since being re-elected on Tuesday, the president reiterated his campaign plank to seek a tax increase on Americans who earn more than $250,000, but skipped out on answering any questions.

The people have spoken: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has been selected by DCist readers as their choice to join the Washington Nationals’ lineup of racing presidents.

After four days of voting, here are the 10 finalists for who you think should be the Washington Nationals’ next racing president.

After one day of voting, Richard Nixon is leading our poll to determine who the Washington Nationals should add to the Presidents’ Races.

For 30 years, Nora Ephron told everyone her knowledge of the most famous anonymous source in the history of American journalism. But it wasn’t until 2005 that people realized she was right.

If you’re an American history buff, you’ll want to check out this video by the Nationals Archives, which details historians’ efforts to try and figure out what President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman were talking about during an 18 1/2-minute gap in a recording made shortly after five men were arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex in 1972.