Richard Nixon

Described as

president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)

Other names

R. M. Nixon, Nixon, Richard Milhous Nixon, President Richard Nixon, President Nixon, Dick Nixon, R. Nixon, Richard M. Nixon, Tricky Dick

Born

January 9, 1913 · 15 references

Died

April 22, 1994 · 15 references

Born in

Birthplace of Richard Nixon · 1 reference

Died in

Weill Cornell Medical Center · 2 references

Buried in

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Cause of death

stroke

Name at birth

Richard Milhous Nixon

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

politician · 1 reference; military officer; lawyer · 1 reference; autobiographer; statesperson; jurist · 1 reference

Positions held

United States representative (1947–1950); President of the United States (1969–1974); Vice President of the United States (1953–1961); United States senator (1950–1953) · 1 reference; President-elect of the United States (1968–1969); president · 1 reference

Political party

Republican Party

Education

Whittier College (–1934) · 1 reference; Duke University; Duke University School of Law (–1937) · 1 reference; Whittier High School · 1 reference; Fullerton Union High School · 1 reference

Member of

American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Académie des beaux-arts

Teams

Whittier Poets football · 1 reference

Awards

American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1988) · 1 reference; Time Person of the Year (2 times) (1971, 1972); National Defense Service Medal · 1 reference; Armed Forces Reserve Medal · 1 reference; Commendation Medal · 1 reference; Ellis Island Medal of Honor · 1 reference; Order of Merit of the Italian Republic · 1 reference; Nishan-e-Pakistan · 1 reference; Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal

Spouse

Pat Nixon (1940–1993) · 1 reference

Children

Tricia Nixon Cox · 1 reference; Julie Nixon Eisenhower · 1 reference

Father

Francis A. Nixon

Mother

Hannah Milhous Nixon · 1 reference

Siblings

Donald Nixon; Edward Nixon

Religion

Quakers

Military branch

United States Navy (1942–1946) · 1 reference

Military rank

lieutenant commander (–1946) · 1 reference; captain 3rd rank · 1 reference

Nickname

Dick Nixon

Height

1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) · 1 reference

Wikipedias with a page

193

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a part of the Watergate scandal.
Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in Yorba Linda, Southern California. He graduated from Whittier College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and from Duke University School of Law with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1937, practiced law in California, and then moved with his wife Pat to Washington, D.C. in 1942, to work for the federal government. After serving in the Naval Reserve during World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His work on the Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist. In 1950, he was elected to the Senate. Nixon was the running mate of Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 and 1956 elections. Nixon served for eight years as vice president, and his two terms saw an increase in the notability of the office. He narrowly lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy. After his loss in the 1962 race for governor of California, Nixon announced his retirement from politics. However, he ran again for the presidency in 1968 and defeated the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Seeking to bring the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table, Nixon ordered military operations and carpet bombing campaigns in Cambodia. He covertly aided Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and ended American combat involvement in Vietnam in 1973, and the military draft the same year. His visit to China in 1972 led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he finalized the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. During the course of his first term, he enacted many progressive environmental policy shifts, such as creating the Environmental Protection Agency and passing laws, including the Endangered Species and Clean Air Acts. In addition to implementing the Twenty-sixth Amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, he ended the direct international convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold in 1971, effectively taking the United States off the gold standard. He also imposed wage and price controls for 90 days, launched the war on cancer and the war on drugs, passed the Controlled Substances Act, and presided over the end of the Space Race by overseeing the Apollo 11 Moon landing. He was re-elected in 1972, when he defeated George McGovern in one of the largest landslide victories in American history.
In his second term, Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli materiel losses in the Yom Kippur War, a conflict which led to the oil crisis at home. From 1973, ongoing revelations from the Nixon administration's involvement in Watergate eroded his support in Congress and the country. The scandal began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee office, ordered by administration officials, and escalated despite cover-up efforts by the Nixon administration, of which he was aware. On August 9, 1974, facing almost certain impeachment and removal from office, Nixon resigned. On September 8, 1974, he received a controversial pardon from his successor, Gerald Ford. During nearly 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote nine books and undertook many foreign trips, rehabilitating his image into that of an elder statesman and leading expert on foreign affairs. On April 18, 1994, he suffered a debilitating stroke and died four days later.

Born, in its opening lines

January 9, 1913

Died, in its opening lines

April 22, 1994

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