Richard M. Nixon 37th US President 1969 - 1974

Richard M. Nixon 1913- 1994

37th US President 1969-1974

Republican

First Lady Thelma Catherine Ryan

Vice Presidents - Spiro T. Agnew (1969-1973) Gerald R Ford ( 1973-74)

Nixon created a cease fire agreement with Vietnam. Nixon also began the SALT talks with the U.S.S.R. The Watergate controversy led to his resignation, but he was granted "a full and complete pardon."


Richard M. Nixon Quotes:

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
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The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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