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January 11 – President Nixon signs an executive order alongside issuing a memoranda setting ordering pay increases to over 118,000 federal blue collar workers. [4] January 13 – President Nixon announces the withdrawal of 70,000 American troops over the course of the next three months in a statement during the White House press briefing. [5]
President Nixon says unjust wage and price increases being asked for by the labor and management groups will result in them being priced "out of the market". [130] President Nixon says the Vietnam War could end sooner if unity across the US occurs in response to criticisms of his foreign policy. [131]
[258] Political historian and pollster Douglas Schoen argues that Nixon was the most important American figure in post-war U.S. politics, while constitutional law professor Cass Sunstein noted in 2017, "If you are listing the five most consequential Presidents in American history, you could make a good argument that Nixon belongs on the list."
1972 – President Richard Nixon visits Mao Zedong in China, an astonishing step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China. 1972 – The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed with the USSR. 1972 – First African-American major league baseball player Jackie Robinson dies.
1973: Richard Nixon (right), the 37th President of the United States of America, with his Vice-President Gerald Ford. (Photo by Ian Showell/Keystone/Getty Images) A "full, free, and absolute pardon"
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days ...
Nixon's resignation and the Watergate scandal bequeathed a political environment that is more partisan, cynical and distrustful of government. OnPolitics: Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The ...
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