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	MSN Encarta - Richard Nixon
		Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California, the second of five sons of Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon.
		Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States (1969-1974), and the only president to have resigned from office.
		Nixon was the second youngest vice president in U.S. history and the first native of California to become either vice president or president.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563374/Richard_Nixon.html (987 words)

	The Watergate Files - The Watergate Trial: May 1972 - June 1973 - People
		Richard Nixon was a hardened veteran of the political arena.
		In the national tumult that marred the year 1968, Nixon withstood the challenge of Vice President Hubert Humphrey who was saddled to an administration held responsible for an unpopular war and domestic unrest, and a strong third-party challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace, who capitalized on racial discord.
		Not trusting his campaign to the normal Republican election framework, Nixon established the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), headed by his former law partner and attorney general, John Mitchell.
	www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov /museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php?section=1&page=b&person=6 (600 words)

	Nixon's Enemies List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nixon's Enemies List is the informal name of what started as a list of President Richard Nixon's major political opponents compiled by Charles Colson and sent in memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971.
		The list was part of a campaign officially known as "Opponents List" and "Political Enemies Project." The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to "screw" Nixon's political enemies, by means of tax audits from the IRS, and by manipulating "grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc."
		Allard Lowenstein, Long Island, New York: Guiding force behind the 18-year-old "Dump Nixon" vote drive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nixon's_Enemies_List (870 words)

	American President
		Schoolchildren absorb at least one fact about Richard Milhous Nixon: He was the first and (so far) the only President of the United States to resign the office.
		In 1968, Nixon won a presidential election almost as narrow as the one he had lost in 1960.
		John F. Kennedy interrupted Nixon’s assent in 1960, winning the presidency by the narrowest margin of the twentieth century.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/richardnixon (350 words)

	American RadioWorks - The President Calling
		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.
		Nixon ran for office in 1968 promising a quick end to the war in Vietnam.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/prestapes/nixon.html (508 words)

	Character Above All: Richard M. Nixon Essay
		So he did--and the indelible marks Richard Nixon left on American history are Watergate and his resignation from the presidency before he could be impeached.
		Any number of Richard Nixon's associates will tell you that
		Whether or not Nixon actually saw these adversaries as Franklins, their presence and manner are bound to have whetted his class instinct; and Kennedy's disputed victory in 1960 must have been the more crushing because of it....
	www.pbs.org /newshour/character/essays/nixon.html (651 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Nixon Resigns
		Richard Milhous Nixon announced last night that he will resign as the 37th President of the United States at noon today.
		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 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)

	Presidents: Richard Nixon
		Nixon went on TV and admitted that he had the fund but that it was not for personal use, but for political use.
		Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California.
		Nixon emerged as a national figure due to his position as Chairman of the House Un-American Activities Special Subcommittee to investigate whether government officials were former Communists.
	www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/nixon.html (1101 words)

	Richard Nixon Checkers Speech
		At the 1952 Republican national convention, young Senator Richard M. Nixon was chosen to be the running mate of presidential candidate Dwight D.
		Nixon, however, in a brilliant political maneuverer, took his case directly to the American people via the new medium of television in a nationwide hookup.
		Eisenhower requested Nixon to come to West Virginia where he was campaigning and greeted Nixon at the airport with, "Dick, you're my boy." The Republicans went on to win the election by a landslide.
	www.historyplace.com /speeches/nixon-checkers.htm (3923 words)

	Richard M. Nixon
		There was the resignation of Vice-President Agnew which led to Senator Gerald Ford becoming Vice-President, and then Watergate and the eventual resignation of Richard Nixon.
		Nixon had in April 1937 applied to become an agent with the FBI, and Gleason worked for the FBI as an official "contact" for the Special Agent in Change (SAC) in Miami where he lived for the last twenty years of his life.
		Nixon described the Apollo 11 mission as the "greatest week in the history of the world since Creation," a statement that brought criticism from his close friend Billy Graham.
	www.presidentialufo.com /richardm.htm (4013 words)

	Nixon Era Center Library
		Nixon remains the only modern president whose personality, rhetoric, and image can be used with impunity to dismiss or ignore his concrete achievements, especially in the area of expanding civil rights enforcement in particular, and domestic reform in general.
		When Nixon's increased funding for elementary and secondary beginning with the Education Amendments of 1972 are added to Nixon's other social welfare spending programs the percentage of such expenditures increased from 49 percent of the GNP 1965 to almost 60% in 1975.
		Nixon's determination to strengthen the Indians' sense of autonomy without threatening their sense of community became even more evident when he asked Congress to repeal the 1953 House Concurrent Resolution which had endorsed integration at the expense of self-determination.
	www.nixonera.com /library/domestic.asp (5116 words)

	Richard M. Nixon
		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 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.
		These cases brought Nixon to the attention of the public and in 1952 Dwight Eisenhower chose him as his running mate in the presidential election of 1952.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAnixon.htm (6032 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Richard Nixon: Racial Healer by Joseph J. Sabia
		Summing up the situation, Senator Richard Russell, D-GA, stated in 1970, “The people of (the South) are more worked up over this problem than anything I’ve seen in all my years in politics.” Enter Richard Nixon: racial healer.
		Brown, we should also honor Richard Nixon for peacefully carrying out its historic judgment.
		Nixon’s aim was to use the minimum coercion necessary to achieve the essential national goal, to encourage local initiative, to respect diversity, and, to the extent possible, to treat the entire nation equally — blacks equally with whites, the South equally with the North.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13493 (879 words)

	Nixon's Views on Presidential Power, United States v. Nixon (1974), Landmark Supreme Court Cases
		President Nixon compares the situation he faced as president during the Vietnam War with the situation that Lincoln faced during the Civil War.
		Article II of the Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon stated that the president "repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens".
		Does President Nixon's statement that "when the president does it [something illegal], that means that it is not illegal" support the idea that the United States has the rule of law, not men?
	www.landmarkcases.org /nixon/nixonview.html (966 words)

	Richard M. Nixon
		Ollie Atkins was the official White House photographer for Richard M. Nixon from his first election in 1968 until his resignation in 1974.
		Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew celebrate their nomination at the Republican National Convention, June 1968.
		Nixon in one of his favorite formal portraits, with a bust of Abraham Lincoln in the background, September 1970.
	www.gmu.edu /library/specialcollections/nixon.html (1008 words)

	Richard Milhous Nixon
		Richard Milhous Nixon: First Term - First Term In 1968 Nixon again won the Republican nomination for president; Spiro T. Agnew was his...
		Richard Milhous Nixon - Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1913–94, 37th President of the United States (1969–74), b.
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	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0760621.html (1097 words)

	The History Place - Impeachment: Richard Nixon
		In all 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.
		Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
		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)

	Richard Nixon - Wikiquote
		Richard Nixon as a boy, on the Teapot Dome scandal.
		"The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment." -- James D. St. Clair, Richard Nixon's counsel, arguing before the Supreme Court
		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.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Richard_Nixon (2467 words)

	Dirty Politics--Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination
		For more information on Richard Nixon click here: Rebirth
		NIXON: When you get in to these people, say: "Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that..." ah, I mean, without going into the details of, of lying to them to the extent to say that there is no involvement.
		Perhaps Nixon was trying to deflect attention from the fact that the plane he had arrived on had originated from Dallas, Texas.
	dirtypolitics.50megs.com /dirty.htm (1213 words)

	President Richard Nixon: Health & Medical History
		Alternate index terms: Medical history of President Nixon, Medical history of President Richard M. Nixon, Medical history of President Richard Milhous Nixon, Medical history of Dick Nixon.
		Through his mother, Nixon was a seventh cousin twice removed of William Howard Taft [4a] and an eighth cousin once removed of Herbert Hoover [4b].
		To cover his five o'clock shadow, Nixon instead had one of his people smear a product of dubious quality, known as "Shave Stick," on his face [1].
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g37.htm (411 words)

	Nixon, Marijuana, and the Shafer Commission
		The Nixon White House tapes from 1971-1972 demonstrate that the foundation of the modern war on marijuana was Nixonian prejudice, culture war and misinformation.
		He found: Nixon blaming calls for marijuana legalization on Jews; Nixon blaming the decline and fall of ancient Rome, and of the Catholic Church, on homosexuality; and Nixon criticizing the CBS sitcom "All in the Family" as a show which promoted homosexuality.
		More importantly, Nixon made clear several times that he wanted a report which supported his views and 'tough on crime' policies, no matter what the facts might be.
	www.csdp.org /news/news/nixon.htm (603 words)

	Section 4: Oliphant's Anthem (LC Exhibition)
		Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States, died April 22, 1994, from complications of a severe stroke.
		Oliphant envisioned come-back artist Richard Nixon making one more attempt at redemption and reelection from beyond the grave.
		Nixon's career as a political figure and statesman spanned nearly five decades, including 20 years in which he held elective office as a congressman, senator, vice president, and president.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/oliphant/part4.html (308 words)

	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.
		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.
		President Richard M. Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell (10/19), Attorney General John Mitchell (10/20), Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldemann, and presidential aide Alexander Butterfield (10/8).
	www.c-span.org /executive/presidential/nixon.asp (1039 words)

	Court TV Wills of Famous People: Richard Nixon
		RICHARD M. NIXON, residing in the Borough of Park Ridge, County of Bergen and State of New Jersey, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament, revoking all prior Wills and codicils.
		In the event such property is distributed to an organization other than the RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY & BIRTHPLACE, I request such organization to bear in mind my wish that such property ultimately repose in such Library, if and when it qualifies as a charitable organization under Sections 170(c) and 2055(a) of the Code.
		In the event such property is distributed to an organization other than the RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY & BIRTHPLACE, I request such organization to bear in mind my wish that such property ultimately repose in such Library, if and when it qualifies as a charitable organization tinder Sections 170(c) and 2055(a) of the Code.
	www.courttv.com /legaldocs/newsmakers/wills/nixon.html (2171 words)

	Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
		Nixon was elected to the United States Senate in 1950, defeating actress turned congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, whom Nixon accused during the campaign of having communist sympathies, calling her the "Pink Lady." In the campaign the Independent Review newspaper tagged Nixon with a nickname he would never shake: "Tricky Dick".
		Nixon likewise was instructed by CBS television producers to wear a grey suit that blended into the backdrop, whereas Kennedy was told by the same producer to wear a black suit which would stand out when black and white television was the standard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Nixon (2171 words)

	Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
		Nixon was elected to the United States Senate in 1950, defeating actress turned congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, whom Nixon accused during the campaign of having communist sympathies, calling her the "Pink Lady." In the campaign the Independent Review newspaper tagged Nixon with a nickname he would never shake: "Tricky Dick".
		Nixon likewise was instructed by CBS television producers to wear a grey suit that blended into the backdrop, whereas Kennedy was told by the same producer to wear a black suit which would stand out when black and white television was the standard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Nixon (5761 words)

	Richard Nixon article - Richard Nixon January 20 1969 August 1974 Lyndon B. Johnson Gerald R. Ford - What-Means.com
		Nixon died on April 22, 1994 in New York City, New York at the age of 81, from complications related to a severe stroke, and was buried beside his wife Pat Nixon on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
		Richard Nixon article - Richard Nixon definition - what means Richard Nixon
		Nixon was born to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhouse.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Richard_Nixon (5761 words)

	Internet Public Library: POTUS
		Richard M. Nixon -- from The American Presidency
		Richard M. Nixon -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
		From Webcorp, short AVI video clips from Nixon's Checker's speech in 1952, his "last press conference" in 1962, and from the Watergate affair in 1974.
	www.ipl.org /div/potus/rmnixon.html (336 words)

	The Nixon-Presley Meeting
		That item, more requested than the Bill of Rights or even the Constitution of the United States, is the photograph of Elvis Presley and Richard M. Nixon shaking hands on the occasion of Presley's visit to the White House.
		Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
		The events leading up to and after the meeting are detailed in the documentation and photographs included here, which include Presley's handwritten letter, memoranda from Nixon staff and aides, and the thank-you note from Nixon for the gifts (including a Colt 45 pistol and family photos) that Presley brought with him to the Oval Office.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/nsa/elvis/elnix.html (390 words)

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