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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).
Nixon in Kyiv in 1972 Nixon meets with Leonid Brezhnev during the Soviet leader's trip to the U.S. in June 1973. Nixon made détente, the easing of tensions with the Soviet Union, one of his top foreign policy priorities. Through détente, he hoped to "minimize confrontation in marginal areas and provide, at least, alternative possibilities in ...
The Nixon administration proposes possession of narcotics for the purpose of personal usage be changed from a misdemeanor to a felony. [155] October 21 – President Nixon meets with Russian cosmonauts Georgej T. Beregovoi and Konstantin Feoktistov at the White House on the second day of the two week tour by the duo across the US. [156]
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Nixon pardon of Sept. 8, 1974, caused a political and legal earthquake that still reverberates in the age of Trump. How Richard Nixon's pardon 50 years ago provides fuel for Donald Trump's ...
Presidents Johnson and Nixon Four vice presidents were present at the inauguration. From left to right: outgoing president Lyndon B. Johnson (the 37th vice president), incoming president Richard Nixon (36th), Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen who was administering the oath of office to 39th vice president Spiro Agnew, and the outgoing vice president Hubert Humphrey (38th).
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days ...
In 2007, Jim Byron, a 14-year-old history buff from Orange County, Calif., was searching for a summer job when he came across a marketing internship at the Richard Nixon Foundation in nearby Yorba ...