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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.
The presidency of Richard Nixon began on January 20, 1969, when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States, and ended on August 9, 1974, when, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, he resigned the presidency (the first U.S. president ever to do so).
The Senate votes 55 to 45 in a rejection of Haynsworth for the Supreme Court. [169] November 22 – President Nixon pledges to assist Illinois Republicans in the 1970 midterm elections as a payback for assistance with his presidential campaign the previous year. [170]
Between Nixon's accession to office and his resignation in August 1974, unemployment rates had risen from 3.5% to 5.6%, and the rate of inflation had grown from 4.7% to 8.7%. [64] Observers coined a new term for the undesirable combination of unemployment and inflation: "stagflation", a phenomenon that would worsen after Nixon left office. [66]
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.
But trust in America's institutions has plummeted on both sides of the aisle since Nixon was in office. Read more: Richard Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The political world has never been the same.
[9] [10] This was the first such vote held in the State of Illinois since 1934. [10] That call failed. The chief sponsor of the legislation that created this ballot measure was Senate Republican leader W. Russell Arrington. [11] Democratic Governor Otto Kerner Jr. was supportive of holding a constitutional convention. [11]
Republican candidate Richard Nixon won the state of Illinois by a narrow margin of 2.93%. [14] The winning of Illinois was the moment that sealed a close and turbulent election for Nixon, [15] [16] who in the last counting did much better in massively populated Cook County than Goldwater or Nixon himself in 1960. [15]