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 resign the office. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961).Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing undergraduate work at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law in La Mirada. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the United States Navy and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander during World War II. He was elected in 1946 as a Republican to the House of Representatives representing California's 12th Congressional district, and in 1950 to the United States Senate. He was selected to be the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was the Republican Party nominee in the 1952 presidential election, and Nixon was vice president until 1961. Nixon announced his withdrawal from politics after losing the presidential electi... more
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    Patricia Nixon is often remembered as the smiling woman who stood behind Richard Nixon during countless speeches and official ceremonies. Only the people who knew her, knew the real Pat, funny, spirited and with a will of iron.
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    From ending the Vietnam War and improving relations with China and the Soviet Union, and finally, his resignation in the face of impeachment, Richard Nixon was a tragically insecure man with a bold vision.
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    Brian Williams with highlights from rare interviews with Richard Nixon from the NBC News archives.
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    It has been 40 years since Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in America. The U.S. now spends $15 billion per year on the battle. Sharyl Attkisson looks at whether it's worth fighting anymore.
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    Ted Koppel on covering Richard Nixon. From the Ted Koppel Archive of American Television Interview http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews
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    A message to Richard Nixon.
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    Ted Koppel on going to China with Richard Nixon. From the Ted Koppel Archive of American Television Interview http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews
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    Nixon's words reflect the sharply divided nation that he inherits as president in 1969: "We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth."
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    In his second inaugural speech, Nixon, a conservative Republican, rails against big government and its "condescending policies of paternalism." He demands that government "learn to take less from people so that people can do more for themselves."
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    From Season 13, Episode 149: Sir David Frost explains his methodology of breaking Richard Nixon down over a 12-day period.
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    Alex present a detailed talk covering the history of the New World Order, its philosophy and mindset, what makes it tick and how we can decisively defeat the plan to establish a technocratic totalitarian world order and prison planet. It is crucial that all of us get up to speed on the philosophy, background and history of...
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    Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow explains how subliminal messages can alter a person’s behavior - take for example how viewers who tuned into the 1960 presidential debate on television felt the young and attractive John F. Kennedy won the contest, while those who listened on the radio felt that Richard Nixon p...
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    From Season 17, Episode 84: Tim Weiner addresses the popular myth that J. Edgar Hoover had control over U.S. presidents.
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    From the Vault: Melissa Harris-Perry takes a historical look at the influence of different forms of media as seen with viewers who tuned in to the televised 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon and famously felt Kennedy prevailed in the debate, while in turn those who listened to the debate on the...
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    Rachel Maddow shares excerpts from newly released love letters from Richard Nixon to his future wife. (The Rachel Maddow Show)
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    In a series of effusive letters to the future First Lady, Nixon professed love and admiration for his “dearest heart.” Starting March 16, the letters will be on public display for the first time at the Nixon Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif. NBC’s Mike Taibbi reports.
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Speech: Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon - Examiner

On September 8, 1974, President Gerald R. Ford took the unprecedented step of pardoning disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon who had been implicated in the Watergate scandal.  Ford made a televised address from the White House which was viewed by ...

Why Bradleegate Matters: Woodward and Bernstein's Deception - Atlantic Online

"Please don't use the presently existing literature as established fact," warned H.R. Haldeman, the former White House chief of staff to Richard Nixon, at a symposium on the Nixon presidency convened at Hofstra University in November 1987. "There's an ...

Brother of President Richard Nixon remembers life growing up in Whittier - Whittier Daily News

WHITTIER - Though much time has passed and the landscape has changed considerably, Whittier still holds a special place in the heart of Edward Calvert Nixon, the last surviving brother of President Richard Nixon. Now living in Washington state ...

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