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  2. 1952 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

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    Senator Richard M. Nixon's speech at a state Republican Party fundraiser in New York City on May 8, 1952, impressed Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who was an Eisenhower supporter and had formed a pro-Eisenhower delegation from New York to attend the national convention. [1]

  3. Checkers speech - Wikipedia

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    The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA), six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his ...

  4. Spiro Agnew - Wikipedia

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    Nixon, vice president himself for eight years under Eisenhower, wanted to spare Agnew the boredom and lack of a role he had sometimes experienced in that office. [110] Nixon initially gave Agnew an office in the West Wing of the White House, a first for a vice president, although in December 1969 it was given to deputy assistant Alexander ...

  5. 1973 United States vice presidential confirmation - Wikipedia

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    On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew (a Republican) was forced to resign following a controversy over his personal taxes.Under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a vice presidential vacancy is filled when the president nominates a candidate who is confirmed by both houses of Congress.

  6. Nelson Rockefeller - Wikipedia

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    After unsuccessfully seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, Rockefeller was appointed vice president of the United States under President Gerald Ford, who was appointed Vice President by President Nixon after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, and who ascended to the presidency following Nixon's resignation in ...

  7. Henry Kissinger was a trusted confidant to President Nixon ...

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    Until the embittered end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few of a distrusting Richard Nixon. The German-born diplomat who got the U.S. out of Vietnam after bloody, costly years of delay ...

  8. Presidency of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    Nixon, a prominent member of the Republican Party from California who previously served as vice president for two terms under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, took office following his narrow victory over Democratic incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party nominee George Wallace in the 1968 ...

  9. Here's the speech Nixon would've said if the Apollo 11 moon ...

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    Safire penned a memo for President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, in the event that the landing failed. Thankfully, the memo was never needed -- but it remains available for us to read.