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Facts

Also Known As Richard Milhous Nixon
Born January 9, 1913 • Yorba Linda • California
Died April 22, 1994 (aged 81) • New York City • New York
Title / Office presidency of the United States of America (1969-1974), United States • vice president of the United States of America (1953-1961), United States • United States Senate (1951-1953), United States • House of Representatives (1947-1951), United States
Political Affiliation Republican Party
Notable Family Members spouse Pat Nixon
Role In Nixon Doctrine • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks • United States presidential election of 1952 • United States presidential election of 1956 • United States presidential election of 1960 • United States presidential election of 1968 • United States presidential election of 1972 • Vietnam War • Watergate scandal • Bank Secrecy Act • National Environmental Policy Act

Did You Know?

  • Nixon applied to join the FBI 32 years before he was elected president.
  • In 1974 and 1975, Nixon mandated daylight savings time year-round.
  • Nixon founded an orange juice company that eventually failed.
  • Nixon installed a bowling alley in the White House's basement.

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Whittaker Chambers sits at the witness stand before several microphones, head slightly bowed, during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing.
Richard Nixon holding his daughter Julie stands beside Dwight Eisenhower and Arthur Summerfield, all smiling amid a crowd at a campaign headquarters event in Washington, D.C.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon at the 1956 Republican convention
Richard M. Nixon and Pat Nixon
Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy stand at separate podiums facing each other during their televised presidential debate in a New York studio in 1960.
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Richard M. Nixon campaign bumper sticker
Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal
Examine President Nixon's threefold plan to unilaterally de-escalate the Vietnam War
See U.S. president Richard M. Nixon speaking about the Watergate scandal
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