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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.
President Nixon was re-elected in one of the largest landslide election victories in American history, winning 61% of the popular vote, receiving 47,168,710 votes to McGovern's 29,173,222 votes. President Nixon won an even larger Electoral College victory, winning 520 electoral votes to 17 for McGovern.
t. e. On August 8, 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon delivered a nationally-televised speech to the American public from the Oval Office announcing his intention to resign the presidency the following day due to the Watergate scandal. Nixon's resignation was the culmination of what he referred to in his speech as the "long and difficult period ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. It revolved around members of a group associated with Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign breaking into and planting listening devices in the ...
June. June 1 – President Nixon meets with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim at the White House during the morning. [55] June 3 – Informed sources state President Nixon's scheduled weeklong trip to the Middle East will include stops to Egypt, Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.