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Richard Nixon toasts with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in February 1972 in Beijing. STORY HIGHLIGHTS On February 21, 1972, President Nixon, China's Zhou Enlai signed a path-breaking accord Kenneth Lieberthal: Nixon's opening to China had particular...
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The only exception was Roosevelt, who shared with Hoover a cordial enmity. 28. Gerald Ford-Our only president never to be elected either president or vice president, Ford was left to pick up the pieces after Nixon resigned in disgrace. Pardoning Nixon...
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Renee Montagne looks back on that day in 1972. Demonstrations by Tibetan monks and nuns has lead to violent confrontations with security forces. Live-fire exercises go on, despite North Korea's threat to respond with a "merciless" attack. You must be...
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LINDA - Instead of taking advantage of the countless Presidents Day sales Monday, thousands visited the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. The nearly 4,000 people were treated not only to free admission to the library, which opened in 1990,...
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Matthews appeared at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. , Monday, for a President's Day panel and sneered that Catholics are attracting bigots. While talking about Richard Nixon, the so-called Southern Strategy and racism, the Hardball At a question and...
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Woodrow Wilson, who was a son of the South, who remembered seeing Jefferson Davis in chains being led past him at the end of the war nevertheless developed something of a hero worship for Lincoln. Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of...
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Divided we stand. The most radical candidate will become the party's nominee, driving the wedge down deeper into the body politic. Yes, we need Barbara Jordan back now to unify this nation once again, like she did 38 years ago. In 1972, President...
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From Mental Floss: How the greatest political prankster of all time messed with Richard Nixon. Kid Cudi released a previously unheard track back from 2008. You know, back before he started doing all that crazy guitar stuff. As we head into Oscar high...
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Mallon all but ignores perhaps the most fascinating of all the Watergate players: John Dean. Assigned to find out whether anyone on the White House staff had been involved with Watergate, Mr. Dean failed to mention that he was the only such individual...
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He was selected by colleagues as speaker in 2006 at 35. Were Rubio to be nominated and elected vice president this fall, he would have had the most rapid rise in national Republican politics since Richard Nixon, who went from Navy veteran and lawyer to...
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In 1972, she was elected to Congress, and in 1974 delivered a historic televised speech as a member of the House Judiciary Committee calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon because of the Watergate scandal. In 1976, she became the first...
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Title X, the law he sponsored that still funds family planning for the poor, passed the House by a vote of 298 to 32. It passed the Senate unanimously. A Republican president, Richard Nixon, enthusiastically signed it. That was 1970. Who says you can’t...
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And, the incident popped up in the 9/11 Commission Report (page 561) as an example of an earlier use of the idea of crashing a passenger jet into a building to make a political statement. Stephen Sondheim and Joel Weidman’s 1991 musical Assassins...
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In all, I’ve visited 11 presidential museums or homesteads and 13 grave sites. I finally had the opportunity to see President Carter up close at President Ford’s funeral. Now I’ve seen met or viewed all of them from Richard Nixon – in a Yankee Stadium...
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"This makes you a citizen just as much as someone born in Texas," she said. George Romney ran for the Republican nomination in 1968 but dropped out of the race. Richard Nixon won the nomination and was elected president. Military service and Congress...
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Watergate is a product of thorough research, but it works as fiction to the extent that Mallon takes its clot of operatives and politicians less seriously than they took themselves. He cares more about gossip than impeachment proceedings, making him a...
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According to AllPar, when President Roosevelt was at the Little White House in Georgia, he used to take the drop top PA out in the countryside, where he’d regularly elude the Secret Service as he bombed around the area’s two-track roads. According to...
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Day, the holiday Richard Nixon designated to celebrate the pomp and glory of the executive branch, is here again. The holiday is an opportunity to reflect on executive authority, and hence, it would be instructive to remember how the founding generation...
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1889 Benjamin Harrison ribbon from a New Jersey event. What’s true in capitalism is really no different in collecting. And political collecting is no different from any other collecting. Basically, it all comes down to supply and demand. That’s why...
About Richard Nixon
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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) and the only president to ever resign the office. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961). Full Article
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A historical marker on August 19, 2011 notes the parking garage in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met in secret with his source 'Deep Throat' (Senior FBI official Mark Felt) as Woodward investigated former US President...
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China's Vice-President Xi Jinping (R) and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attend an evening banquet to commemorate the 40th anniversary of former U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, January 16, 2012.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivers a speech during an evening banquet to commemorate the 40th anniversary of former U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing January 16, 2012.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (L) looks down at Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping as he speaks in Beijing January 16, 2012, during celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China. China and the United States should work...
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Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping drinks a glass of red wine as he toasts a dinner, also attended by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, to mark the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China in Beijing January 16, 2012. China and the United States...
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In this photo provided by the family, Itzcoatl Ocampo, a former Marine who saw combat in Iraq, stands at left with an unidentified person in this electronic device photo during a 2011 visit to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif. , seen at the family's Yorba...
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U.S. President Richard Nixon and NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher, discuss the proposed Space Shuttle vehicle in San Clemente in this NASA handout photo dated January 5, 1972. The President announced that day that the United States should proceed at once with the development of an...
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A man wearing a Richard Nixon mask battles with others as he partakes in New York City's sixth annual, and the world's fourth annual Pillow Fight Day in New York's Union Square April 2, 2011.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is seen during a lecture at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda on Wednesday night Sept. 7, 2011. Cheney is on tour after the release of his book "In My Time.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney and daughter, Liz, held a lecture at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. , Calif. , on Wednesday night Sept. 7, 2011. They are on tour to promote his book "In My Time.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to supporters about his career in politics during a lecture at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , on Wednesday night Sept, 7, 2011. Cheney is on tour to promote his book "in My Time.
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Kevin Hoyt of the Freedom's Flame Foundation places an American flag on top of steel from the World Trade Center during the 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. The display will continue...
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Chase Molenaar, 14, of Yorba Linda, Calif. touches a piece of steel from the World Trade Center during a 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. The display will continue through Sept. 11, 2011.
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Shane Bloom, 17, second left, of Seal Beach, Calif. touches steel from the World Trade Center with fellow members of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps during a 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , Monday, Sept. 5,...
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Emily Lillemoen, 5, center, and her brother Zachary Lillemoen, 7, left, both of Anaheim Hills, Calif. touch a piece of steel from the World Trade Center during a 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , Monday,...
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Community members listen to speakers during the 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. The display continues through Sept. 11, 2011.
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A message written on part of the 20 tons of World Trade Center wreckage at the 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. , Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. The display continues through Sept. 11, 2011.
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FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2011, file photo Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, listens to a speaker at VFW Post 8641 in Merrimack, N.H. Just how rich is Mitt? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, then...
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In this Dec. 3, 1969 photo provided by of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, President Richard Nixon presents Moon rocks to then Governor of Alaska Keith Mille, right, as Pat Nixon, second left, and Diana Miller look on at the Governors Conference in Washington. Alaska officials...
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File photo of former U.S. presidents and their wives at the funeral for former U.S. President Richard Nixon at his presidential library in Yorba Linda, California, in this April 27, 1994 file photo. From left to right are Bill and Hillary Clinton, George and Barbara Bush, Ronald and...
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Western Union Ad Featuring U.S. President Richard Nixon, 1970.
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A statue of President Gerald R. Ford is seen after an unveiling ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Ford is the only president in America's history to reach the Oval Office without first winning election as president or vice president. A...
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Bob Woodward (L), a former Washington Post reporter takes a tour of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with director Timothy Naftali before his discussion about the Watergate Hotel burglary and stories, in Yorba Linda, California April 18, 2011. The Washington Post won a 1973...
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Ben Bradlee (L), a former Washington Post executive editor and Bob Woodward, a former Post reporter, tour the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, inside the Nixon birthplace home before their discussion about the Watergate Hotel burglary and stories for the Post, in Yorba Linda,...
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Ben Bradlee (L), a former Washington Post executive editor and Bob Woodward, a former Washington Post reporter have a discussion about the Watergate Hotel burglary and stories for the Post at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California April 18, 2011. The...
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A historical marker on August 19, 2011 notes the parking garage in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met in secret with his source 'Deep Throat' (Senior FBI official Mark Felt) as Woodward investigated former US President...
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