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January 6 – The House and Senate jointly officiate the re-election of President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew to a second term during a ceremony. [ 18 ] January 8 – United States Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird says 5,000 men will be drafted between March 1 and July 1 during an appearance before Congress.
January 26 – President Nixon vetoes the Senate approved 19.7 billion dollar money bill during a televised appearance in the evening. [24] January 27 – President Nixon meets with Prime Minister of Britain Harold Wilson at the White House. [25] January 28 – The House sustains President Nixon's veto of the money bill. [26]
January 2 – The White House releases the text of a message sent to Congress by President Nixon the previous day alongside his vetoing of a bill raising the pay for roughly 850,000 federal workers. [2] January 22 – President Nixon delivers the 1971 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. [citation needed]
Nixon attends a ceremony for the swearing in of 81 White House staff members. [2] January 22 – George W. Romney resigns as Governor of Michigan to be sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. [3] January 28 – President Nixon speaks to members of the House rules committee and House leadership during a luncheon. [4]
There were 537 electoral votes, up from 531 in 1956, because of the addition of 2 U.S. Senators and 1 U.S. Representative from each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. (The House of Representatives was temporarily expanded from 435 members to 437 to accommodate this, and would go back to 435 when reapportioned according to the 1960 census.)
Cox and the Senate Watergate Committee both asked Nixon to turn over the tapes, but Nixon refused, citing executive privilege and national security concerns. [235] The White House and Cox remained at loggerheads until the " Saturday Night Massacre " October 23, 1973, when Nixon demanded that the Justice Department fire Cox.
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 previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
January 28 – First Lady Pat Nixon denies reports that President Nixon has been recently experiencing sleeping problems during an appearance in the state dining room of the White House. [24] President Nixon sends a special message to Congress in which he requests US$13.6 billion for veteran benefits for the following fiscal year. [25]