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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 previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Mary Steenburgen portrayed Hannah Nixon in the 1995 Oliver Stone film Nixon. [10] Her maiden name and her son Richard's middle name, Milhous, was used by Matt Groening, creator of the cartoon sitcom "The Simpsons," for Bart Simpson's friend Milhouse because it was the most "unfortunate name [Groening] could think of for a kid". [11]
Old Buck, from a shortening of his last name, used later in life. [66] Old Public Functionary, [67] used by Buchanan in his December 1859 State of the Union address and adopted by newspapers. [66] Ten-Cent Jimmy: derogatory, as a reaction to Buchanan's campaign statement that ten cents a day was decent pay for a worker. [68]
Nixon had represented the U.S. government along with former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at Charles' investiture in Caernarvon Wales one year earlier in July 1969. [9] She has lived a very private life in the suburbs of New York, and was a stay-at-home mother to her son, [citation needed] Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979. [3]
Nixon in Kyiv in 1972 Nixon meets with Leonid Brezhnev during the Soviet leader's trip to the U.S. in June 1973. Nixon made détente, the easing of tensions with the Soviet Union, one of his top foreign policy priorities. Through détente, he hoped to "minimize confrontation in marginal areas and provide, at least, alternative possibilities in ...
Richard M. Nixon, right, was the 37th president. Two local political scientists old enough to remember 1968 — Cal Jillson of Southern Methodist University and Jim Riddlesperger of TCU — both ...
The Tax Reform Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–172) was a United States federal tax law signed by President Richard Nixon on December 30, 1969.Its largest impact was creating the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was intended to tax high-income earners who had previously avoided incurring tax liability due to various exemptions and deductions.
A bust of former U.S. President Richard Nixon is displayed in the corridor where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S ...