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The presidency of Richard Nixon began on January 20, 1969, when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States, and ended on August 9, 1974, when, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, he resigned the presidency (the first U.S. president ever to do so).
Between Nixon's accession to office and his resignation in August 1974, unemployment rates had risen from 3.5% to 5.6%, and the rate of inflation had grown from 4.7% to 8.7%. [64] Observers coined a new term for the undesirable combination of unemployment and inflation: "stagflation", a phenomenon that would worsen after Nixon left office. [66]
Nixon (second from right) makes his newspaper debut in 1916, contributing five cents to a fund for World War I orphans; his brother Donald is to his right. Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in what was then the township precinct of Yorba Linda, California, [1] in a house built by his father, on his family's lemon ranch.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Richard Nixon from January 1, 1974, to August 9, 1974, when, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, he resigned the presidency (the first U.S. president ever to do so).
On Jan. 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m., a violent shudder tore through Southern California. The Northridge earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.7, killed about 60 people and damaged or destroyed more than ...
None of Nixon's appointees remain in active service, however 2 appellate judges and 1 district judge remain on senior status. Three additional district judges appointed by Nixon are in senior status as appellate judges by the appointment of later presidents.
Richard M. Nixon, right, was the 37th president. Two local political scientists old enough to remember 1968 — Cal Jillson of Southern Methodist University and Jim Riddlesperger of TCU — both ...
He also awarded Nixon a full pardon shortly after assuming office, which proved to be a controversial decision. Carter won with 297 electoral votes, a majority stemming from the Southern and ...