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President Richard M. Nixon
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1969 |
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Richard Milhous
Nixon is seated as the 37th President of the United States
serving from 1969 until he resigns in 1974.
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Vice Pres. |
Spiro
Theodore Agnew becomes Vice President.
Pleading no contest to tax evasion he becomes the first Vise
President to resign from office in 1973.
Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 9, 1918.
He died of leukemia at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin,
Maryland on September 17, 1996. |
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First Lady |
Thelma
Catherine "Pat" (Ryan) Nixon was first Lady. They had 2
children. |
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Nixon was a
Republican from
California.
In 1972 Nixon visits Beijing and Moscow reducing tension with
China and Russia.
The Watergate break-in is revealed and traced back to Nixon's
re-election committee. Recording tapes reveal Nixon attempted to
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Inaug. Addr. |
"Our destiny offers, not
the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us
seize it, not in fear, but in gladness-- and, "riders on the
earth together," let us go forward, firm in our faith, steadfast
in our purpose, cautious of the dangers; but sustained by our
confidence in the will of God and the promise of man." -
President Richard Milhous Nixon, First Inaugural Address. |
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Quotes |
"Once a man has been
in politics, once that's been in his life, he will always return
if the people want him." - President Richard Milhous Nixon.
"What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live
in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is
ours to determine by our actions and our choices." - President
Richard Milhous Nixon.
"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself
has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing
himself does he find himself." - President Richard Milhous
Nixon. |
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1973 |
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Richard M. Nixon
is re-elected President of the United States.
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Vice Pres. |
In 1973
Spiro T. Agnew becomes the second Vice
President to resign from office but the first in the face of
scandal.
President Richard
Nixon appoints Gerald R. Ford as the new
Vice President after Agnew resigned. The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as vice president. |
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Nixon was a
Republican from
California.
President Richard Nixon becomes
the first President to resign from office on August 9, 1974.
Nixon is the first President to have visited all 50 states.
Nixon initiates the withdrawal from Vietnam. |
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Inaug. Addr. |
"Let us go
forward from here confident in hope, strong in our faith in one
another, sustained by our faith in God who created us, and
striving always to serve His purpose." - President Richard
Milhous Nixon, Second Inaugural Address. |
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"I like the job I
have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to
have ended up a sports writer." - President Richard Milhous
Nixon.
With impeachment almost certain, President Richard M. Nixon on
August 8, 1974 announces he will resign the next day to begin
"that process of healing which is so desperately needed in
America."
"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty;
always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't
win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." -
President Richard Milhous Nixon. |
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Birth Death |
Richard M. Nixon was
born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda,
California.
Nixon died of a stroke at
New York hospital on April 22, 1994 in
New York City. |
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Executive Jumps -
G Washington
- J Adams -
T
Jefferson - J Madison -
J Monroe -
J Q
Adams - A Jackson -
- M Van Buren -
W
H Harrison - J Tyler -
J Polk -
Z Taylor -
M Fillmore -
F Pierce
- J Buchanan -
A
Lincoln - A Johnson -
- U S Grant -
R B Hayes
- J Garfield -
C
Arthur - G Cleveland -
B Harrison -
G
Cleveland - W McKinley -
T Roosevelt -
- W Taft
- W Wilson -
W Harding
- C Coolidge -
H
Hoover - F D Roosevelt -
H Truman -
D D Eisenhower
- J F Kennedy -
- L B Johnson -
R Nixon -
G Ford -
J Carter -
R Reagan -
G H W Bush
- B Clinton -
G W Bush
- BH Obama -
- Methodology -
TimeLine of the Presidency -
Inauguration Speeches
- Party Platforms
-
The Early Presidents
- Distinctions of the
Presidencies
Black
American Patriots -
President's Day -
Rhymes about the
Founding Fathers
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