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  Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 was notable among Vice Presidents in having actually stepped up to run the government three times when Eisenhower was ill: on the occasions of Eisenhower's heart attack on September 24, 1955; his ileitis in June 1956; and his stroke in November 1957.
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 fl suit which would stand out when fl and white television was the standard.
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 MSN Encarta - Richard Nixon
Nixon was the second youngest vice president in U.S. history and the first native of California to become either vice president or president.
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.
Nixon’s campaign was an example of the vigorous and aggressive style characteristic of his political career.
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 Richard Milhous Nixon - Wikipédia
Richard Milhous Nixon, (1913 - 1994) est le trente-septième Président des États-Unis d'Amérique.
Richard Milhous Nixon naît le 9 janvier 1913 à Yorba Linda, Californie.
Nixon grimpe rapidement les échelons politiques se faisant connaître comme un ferme anti-communiste.
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 Richard Milhous Nixon - People of California
Nixon's mother was very devoted to her Quaker religion, and had hoped that her son would grow up to become a Quaker missionary.
When Nixon returned to the United States, he ran for Congress from his California district, and then in 1950 he was elected to the Senate.
Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger relentlessly pursued negotiations in the Mideast, with Israel, Egypt, and Syria.
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 Richard Milhous Nixon
Nixon was a high school debater and was undergraduate president at Whittier College in California, where he was graduated in 1934.
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: Political Career to 1968 - Political Career to 1968 A graduate of Whittier College and Duke Univ. law school, he practiced law...
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 Richard Nixon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Milhouse Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh (The person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government) President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Nixon was accused by nameless sources of having been financed by a (A fund for buying votes or bribing public officials) slush fund provided by (A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it) business supporters.
Nixon was named by the grand jury investigating Watergate as "an unindicted co-conspirator" in the (A political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974) Watergate Scandal.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ri/Richard_Nixon.htm   (4876 words)

  
 Nixon, Richard Milhous -> Second Term: The Watergate Affair on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 also released transcripts of these conversations to the public, continuing to profess noninvolvement in the Watergate coverup despite growing evidence to the contrary.
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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 CNN Cold War - Profile: Richard Milhous Nixon
Nixon graduated second in his class and won a scholarship to Duke University law school, where he graduated third in his class.
Nixon's ongoing obsession with political enemies resulted in the Watergate scandal, and in August 1974 Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign.
Afterward, Nixon wrote a number of books on international affairs and, toward the end of his life, was somewhat rehabilitated as a foreign policy expert.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/nixon   (374 words)

  
 watergate.info - The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon is one of the most fascinating political figures of the 20th Century.
Nixon died in 1994 and was eulogised by the political establishment, although he was still a figure of controversy.
The investigations into Watergate that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon are a case study in the operation of the American Constitution and political values.
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 Character Above All: Richard M. Nixon Essay
Richard Nixon was an introvert in the extroverted calling of the politician.
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....
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.
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 37th President, Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California, January 9, 1913.
Nixon's career nearly took a setback when he was accused of accepting improper gifts.
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.
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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 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.
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 Richard Nixon - Wikipedia
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.
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 Internet Public Library: POTUS
Richard M. Nixon -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
From Webcorp, sound clips from the kitchen debate with Khrushchev, Checkers speech, concession speech "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore," explaining Watergate, and his resignation.
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.
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 Nixon, Richard Milhous --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Nixon, Richard M. 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate Scandal, became the first American president to resign from office.
Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, a farming village in Orange County, Calif., on Jan. 9, 1913.
Nixon, Richard M. The first president of the United States to resign from office was Richard M. Nixon.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9115536   (794 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard was smart enough to win admission to Harvard, but his family could not afford to send him East.
Nixon and HUAC soon hit pay dirt when they stumbled upon on one of the few incidents of a communist actually holding a high position in the U.S. government.
Nixon said Douglas was "pink right down to her underwear" and Douglas called Nixon "Tricky Dick." Only in 1952 with the slush fund controversy would Nixon get a taste of his own medicine.
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 Richard Milhous Nixon (1969- 1974)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Nixon first ran for President in 1960 while he was Vice President during the Eisenhower term.
Richard Nixon accomplished many things during his tenure, but like his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, he would be forever remembered for his failure, rather than his achievement.
The Nixon administration was tainted by corrupt and deceit.
www.kennesaw.edu /pols/3380/pres/nix.html   (271 words)

  
 Richard Milhous Nixon
The subsequent investigation of the "Watergate affair" led to the downfall of the Nixon presidency in 1974.
Nixon was the first president to resign from office.
With his trip to China in 1972, Nixon became the first president to visit a country not recognized by the United States.
www.seattleu.edu /artsci/history/us1945/prez/nixon.htm   (297 words)

  
 AbsoluteFacts.com - Richard Milhous Nixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was the 37th president of the United States.
Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California as son of a grocer.
In 1934 Nixon graduated from Duke University and entered a law practice in Whittier in 1937.
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 Richard Milhous Nixon
The letter is as far from the image which Richard M. Nixon got himself in the end of his service in the White House as the president
Such a willpower can certainly lead to doubtful acts but contrary to what might be expected such a deed would never have been put in action for personal advancement but in the name of the country, the idealism which it is founded on and the religion passed on generation by generation.
This can be seen from the stems that are wide in their formation.Richard M. Nixon is an idealist who will be known to the world as such as times goes by.
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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.
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).
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.
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