Richard Nixon The 37th President of the United States (1969-1974). Previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California. He became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. (Whitehouse.gov)

Checkers (Nixon’s Dog) This dog is most famously referenced in Nixon’s “Checkers Speech”. A gift from a Texan supporter that Nixon officially admitted to keeping. This speech on September 23, 1952 brought the nation closer to Nixon’s as a person and not just a politician. (Youtube.com)

U2 Incident The U-2 Incident. Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. (coldwar.org)

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher A global law firm, founded in Los Angeles in 1890. It has over 1,000 attorneys and 2,000 staff located in 18 offices around the world. The company that investigated Nixon’s financial life, in the Checkers Speech. (linkedin.com)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson Illinois governor (1948-1952), two-time Democratic presidential nominee (1952, 1956), United States ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965), and close personal and political friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, was born February 5, 1900 in Los Angeles, California. The leading Democratic figure of the 1950s, Stevenson was known for his wit, intellectual speeches, and liberal political convictions. For many Americans in the mid- twentieth century, he symbolized conscience in politics. (www.gwu.edu)

Alger Hiss Case 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and an editor with Time magazine, testified before the House Un- American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s. The case had all the elements of a fine drama: compelling characters, accusations of treason, unusual evidence, the launching of a presidential career, and enough inconsistencies and ambiguities to leave the issue of guilt or innocence in doubt for decades. (cia.com, History.com)

Waging Peace The first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. (Amazon Book)

Korean War (1950-1953) The first military clash of the Cold War and the first United Nations-sanctioned conflict, the Korean War pitted the United States and its allies against the Soviet Union and its communist clients. The Korean War also inaugurated what became the U.S. policy of containment. (gwu.edu, history.com)