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  The History Place - Impeachment: Richard Nixon
This second loss led Nixon to bitterly announce he was leaving politics, telling reporters "...you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." However, he re-emerged as a presidential candidate in 1968 and ran a successful campaign against Democrat Hubert Humphrey, squeaking out a victory in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
President Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods was eventually blamed as having caused the erasure supposedly after she had been asked to prepare a summary of taped conversations for the President.
In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/impeachments/nixon.htm   (2289 words)

  
  Nixon, Richard Milhous. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Nixon’s Southern strategy, through which he hoped to woo the South into the Republican party, led him to weaken the federal government’s commitment to racial equality and to sponsor antibusing legislation in Congress.
Soon after his reelection Nixon’s popularity plummeted as the growing revelations of the Watergate affair indicated pervasive corruption in his administration, and there was widespread criticism of the amount of government money spent on his private residences.
Nixon refused to relinquish these, basing his refusal on claims of “executive privilege,” i.e., the confidentiality of executive communications whose release might endanger national security.
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 Nixon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nixon is an Oliver Stone film that tells the story of the political and personal life of former President Richard Nixon.
The film covers all aspects of Nixon's life in order to get a better psychological portrait of both the man and the president; however, the film is not to be taken as literal history "as it happened," but rather as a pastiche and composite of actual events.
When Nixon returns from China and goes to the press area aboard Air Force One, the reporter in the front row on the left side can be seen knocking his head on the overhead compartment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nixon_(movie)   (1073 words)

  
 Richard Nixon Encyclopedia Article @ Encyclopedia.LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Encyclopedia)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nixon is noted for his diplomatic foreign policy, especially détente with the Soviet Union and China, and ending the Vietnam War.
Nixon promised "peace with honor," and without claiming to be able to win the war, Nixon claimed that "new leadership will end the war and win the peace in the Pacific".
Nixon's sense of being persecuted by his "enemies," his grandiose belief in his own moral and political excellence, and his commitment to utilize ruthless power at all costs led some experts to describe him as having a narcissistic and paranoid personality.
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 Richard Nixon Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nixon appealed to what he claimed was the "silent majority" of moderate Americans who disliked the "hippie" counterculture.
Nixon, however, was named by the grand jury investigating Watergate as "an unindicted co-conspirator" in the Watergate Scandal.
Nixon died on April 22, 1994, at the age of 81 from complications related to a stroke and was buried beside his wife Pat Nixon in the grounds of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
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 WashingtonPost.com: Nixon Resigns
Nixon said he decided he must resign when he concluded that he no longer had "a strong enough political base in the Congress" to make it possible for him to complete his term of office.
Nixon's brief speech was delivered in firm tones and he appeared to be complete control of his emotions.
Nixon won a mammoth election victory in 1972, only to be brought down by scandals that grew out of an excessive zeal to make certain he would win re-election.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/080974-3.htm   (2521 words)

  
 American RadioWorks - The President Calling
Nixon ran for office in 1968 promising a quick end to the war in Vietnam.
Though Richard Nixon won re-election by a landslide in 1972, his second term was quickly consumed by the Watergate scandal.
Counsel to President Nixon, John Dean, was one of the few people in the Justice Department to vet candidates for the Supreme Court in 1971.
americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/prestapes/nixon.html   (508 words)

  
 Richard Nixon: Tutte le informazioni su Richard Nixon su Encyclopedia.it
Richard Milhous Nixon (9 gennaio 1913 - 22 aprile 1994) è stato il 37° presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, occupando la carica fra il gennaio 1969 ed il 9 agosto 1974, quando si dimise per via dello scandalo Watergate.
Sfruttando le sue capacità di attrazione dell'elettorato e la sua fama di anti-comunista, Nixon salì rapidamente nella gerarchia del partito, e nel 1950 ottenne un seggio al Senato.
Al termine del secondo mandato di Eisenhower, Nixon si candidò alla presidenza, ma nelle elezioni del 1960 fu sconfitto dal democratico Kennedy; nel 1962 si candidò alla carica di governatore della California, ma fu di nuovo sconfitto.
www.encyclopedia.it /r/ri/richard_nixon.html   (274 words)

  
 American Experience | The Presidents | Richard M. Nixon | PBS
Nixon recognized that anti-Communism was growing in popularity in the United States.
Nixon knew the difference between the two groups; most of the voters did not.
Nixon and Chotiner refined the effort, printing a flyer claiming that Douglas had voted with Marcantonio a total of 354 times.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/presidents/37_nixon/nixon_early.html   (1247 words)

  
 Assassins like Richard Nixon,legacy is eternal, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy assassination, ...
That is what Richard Nixon in fact believed and having developed the bizarre notion that if the media did not report it, it wasn’t a crime, his peculiar answer to getting away with breaking the law was to forge alliances with the media.
The flip side of this perversion is that Richard Nixon developed the idea that he could use the media to destroy his adversaries -and therein lies the genesis of the media-driven Whitewater scandal.
In his memoirs, Nixon exposes the obsession that he and Hoover shared to blame the Kennedy assassination on Oswald the “Communist”, an obsession which produced the bizarre claim that prior to his attempt on Kennedy’s life, Oswald planned to assassinate Nixon.
www.angelfire.com /ky/ohwhy/assassins.html   (1416 words)

  
 Richard M. Nixon
Nixon soon emerged as the most skillful members of the House of Un-American Activities Committee and played an important role in the interrogation of Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers.
Nixon became a lawyer in Los Angeles, and after losing the race for governor of California in 1962, claimed he was retiring from politics.
Nixon calmed Woods and told her the mistake was not of consequence because Buzhardt had told him that the Haldeman portion was not among the subpoenaed tapes.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAnixon.htm   (7780 words)

  
 #1: Nixon
Nixon festers and fumes and sobs through the movie, particularly in the framing device, just like Marlowe's Edward II does in his chamber, awaiting both the harsh, puncturing retribution of his enemies and the judgments of the offstage audience.
The Nixons will later have a standoff from their respective sides of a long dining-room table, and the serial flashbacks to childhood install a fierce complex of maternal fascination and familial abandonment that, to say the least, risk a little overstatement.
Nixon has so many faults and terrible habits that it's hard to see anything that was good about him, save perhaps for his dogged resilience, and even that quality led him straight into a fair number of disasters.
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 Richard Nixon - Wikiquote
Nixon: You can never put, John, any person who is a Jew on a civil rights kind of case, or freedom of the press kind of case, and get even a ten percent chance.
NIXON: The Jews -- the Jews are, are born spies.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Richard_Nixon   (2483 words)

  
 Richard M. Nixon
During his Presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China.
Born in California in 1913, Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law.
Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/rn37.html   (628 words)

  
 Richard Nixon News - The New York Times
Nixon, one of the half dozen pivotal figures of American politics in the quarter century that followed World War II, wrought foreign policy accomplishments of historic proportions.
In life, Richard Nixon was loved or hated with a special ardor by those who knew him best and dealt directly with him on political matters and matters of state.
Samuel A. Garrison III was chief Republican counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in its Watergate investigation in 1974.
topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/n/richard_milhous_nixon/index.html?inline=nyt-per   (1056 words)

  
 Marni Nixon, The Voice of Hollywood, a CurtainUp Feature
And Nixon, who like Elaine Stritch and Barbara Cook, is living proof that musical talent and charm need not fall victim to Father Time, has strengthened her mix of reminiscences, songs and film clips to make this a more sophisticated entertainment.
Nixon's musical selections represent her entire career (including her most recent appearance as Freulein Schneider in Cabaret) and a personal life which includes several marriages to musicians.
Nixon was happy to be cast as one of the nuns but there was some nervous anticipation about meeting Andrews to whom she served as a reminder of a major disappointment.
www.curtainup.com /marninixon.html   (1005 words)

  
 Nixon's Views on Presidential Power, United States v. Nixon (1974), Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Article II of the Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon stated that the president "repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens".
President Nixon states that there are other ways of containing a president's power besides the rule of law.
President Nixon compares the situation he faced as president during the Vietnam War with the situation that Lincoln faced during the Civil War.
www.landmarkcases.org /nixon/nixonview.html   (966 words)

  
 Biography of Pat Nixon
Despite the demands of official life, the Nixons were devoted parents to their two daughters, Tricia (now Mrs.
Pat Nixon used her position as First Lady to encourage volunteer service--"the spirit of people helping people." She invited hundreds of families to nondenominational Sunday services in the East Room.
Nixon took quiet pride in adding 600 paintings and antiques to the White House Collection.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/pn37.html   (524 words)

  
 Mojo Nixon, unretired
Nixon has been a radio personality on Sirius Satellite Radio since his retirement from live touring.
Nixon’s musical career from 1984-2004 included more than a dozen albums, thousands of live performances around the world, several bad movie parts, dozens of television appearances, censorship from Hustler Magazine, MTV and several record distributors plus a series of death threats from an angry Don Henley fan.
Nixon recently rerecorded his best known song “Elvis Is Everywhere” at Top Hat Recording in South Austin with updated lyrics called “Kinky Is Everywhere” that will be distributed free at the upcoming gigs.
www.mojonixon.com   (1202 words)

  
 Missouri Attorney General's Office
The coalition presented Nixon with an award for his office's work in producing "Welcome Home," a free consumer publication that describes the legal, financial and emotional aspects of adopting a child in Missouri.
The tickets were donated by two brokers as part of settlements with Nixon as the Attorney General's Office looks into the practices of ticket brokers who were offering tickets to the concert at many times their face value.
Nixon made the announcement at the Thornberry Unit of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City, one of the recipient charities.
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 Nixon White House Tapes
President Richard M. Nixon White House Tapes: 1971 conversations in the Oval Office with Ronald Reagan, on the vote to seat China at the UN, and with Attorney General John Mitchell, on the appointment of Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court.
On March 8, new guidelines for the classifcation of documents were announced by the President, who ordered a reduction in the number of agencies and officials empowered to classify documents.
President Richard M. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, White House Secretary Rose Mary Woods, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, OMB Director George Schultz, Treasury Secretary John Connally, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and White House aides Charles Colson and Patrick Buchanan.
www.c-span.org /executive/presidential/nixon.asp   (1039 words)

  
 Nixon Presidential Library & Museum
The Nixon Library is saddened by the death of California State University, Fullerton, professor emeritus Harry Jeffrey.
A longtime Orange County resident and civic activist, Jeffrey had advised the Library on its ongoing oral history project and was among those on hand to welcome the creation of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on July 11, 2007.
The Nixon Library and Museum is part of the presidential libraries system administered by the National Archives
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 Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation
The exhibit was created through the pooled efforts and resources of the Western Division of the Train Collectors Association, the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation, and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
The exhibit reflects months of work from local volunteers of the Western Division of the Train Collectors Association, the leading national organization of train enthusiasts whose 30,000 members are dedicated to the collecting, preservation, and running of toy trains.
Richard Nixon once implied that the media were wallowing in Watergate.
www.nixonfoundation.org   (421 words)

  
 Nixon (1995)
It paints both Nixon and the times he (and the country) lived through on a grand and mythic scale that was truly awesome and, once again, entirely appropriate.
Once scene involves Nixon's visit to the CIA and another a discussion between Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover in the Oval Office.
I feel that these two scenes should be edited back into their appropriate places in the movie; seeing them separated from the rest of the film is better than not seeing them at all, but they really belong as part of the entire story.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0113987   (733 words)

  
 The Nixon Center
In Foreign Policy, Vaughan Turekian and Nixon Center Executive Director Paul J. Saunders argue that climate change can't be stopped and the U.S. and others should prepare for its consequences.
In the International Herald Tribune, Nixon Center President Dimitri K. Simes writes that despite the Democratic takeover of Congress and the start of the presidential campaign, there appears to be little interest in a serious public dialogue about the direction of U.S. foreign policy.
In the Los Angeles Times, Nixon Center President Dimitri K. Simes writes that The Kremlin softened its position on Iran; now it rightfully expects the U.S. to listen up on Kosovo.
www.nixoncenter.org   (510 words)

  
 Nixon.
Brazil's best loved surf brand, South to South, opened their first UK store in Falmouth to much acclaim at the end of June.
Nixon are putting the finishing touches to the Isles of Scilly tourism brochure for 2008.
Nixon recently won a six way pitch to work with Cornwall Pure Business on all their communication material.
www.nixondesign.com   (247 words)

  
 Nixon Watches - Free Shipping - Huge Selection
Nixon Watches started as a frustration at a lack of quality watches that deliver what you need in various high stress work and play environments has grown into a network of athletes, rock stars, retailers, and dedicated loyalists that bring Nixon products to market.
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