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  2. Richard Nixon's resignation speech - Wikipedia

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    On August 5, 1974, several of President Richard Nixon's recorded-on-audiotape Oval Office conversations were released. One of them, which was described as the "smoking gun" tape, was recorded soon after the Watergate break-in, and demonstrated that Richard Nixon had been told of the White House connection to the Watergate burglaries soon after they took place, and approved a plan to thwart the ...

  3. Watergate scandal - Wikipedia

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    The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon which began in 1972 and ultimately led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.

  4. 1974 United States vice presidential confirmation - Wikipedia

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    On August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon (a Republican) was forced to resign amid the Watergate scandal. Vice President Gerald Ford ascended to the presidency, leaving the office of vice president vacant.

  5. Today in history: Nixon resigns - AOL

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    On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, announced his resignation. In a television address from the Oval Office, Nixon said: %shareLinks-quote="By taking this ...

  6. OnPolitics: Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The political world ...

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    Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very different political ...

  7. Nixon resigned the presidency 50 years ago just months after ...

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    This same meal would also be the last one Richard Milhous Nixon ate on Aug. 8, 1974, in the White House, just moments before going on national television to announce his ...

  8. Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Presidency of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    Richard Nixon's tenure as the 37th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1969, and ended when he resigned on August 9, 1974, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, the only U.S. president ever to do so.