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Richard Nixon

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (R) is sworn in as the 35th US president by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren (L) in front of the Capitol in Washington on January 20, 1961. Attending are, at the first row, US former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (L), US Vice President Lyndon Johnson (2nd R) and US former Vice President Richard Nixon (R).

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  • Suffolk Dems back Montano -- except Schaffer

    He added that Schaffer's stature statewide "has earned him a bye" in his personal support for Johnson, a senator since Richard Nixon was president.Even State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria), head of the Senate Democratic campaign committee, who headlined   Read more »

  • Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at 80

    Colson , the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80.Colson's death was confirmed by Jim Liske, the chief   Read more »

  • Schram: Washington's amazing bureaucrats

    what happened.It was 1973 and I'd heard government funds were being spent on nonsecurity improvements at President Richard Nixon 's homes and grounds, especially his new estate in San Clemente , Calif. I was Newsday's Washington bureau chief, and when I started   Read more »

  • Obama, Romney sweep health care laws under a rug

    -- Now here's a tag team for the ages: Richard Nixon , Mitt Romney , Barack Obama .The arc of history joins all three in the cause of universal health care, a goal promoted by Nixon four decades ago and advanced in laws enacted by Romney and Obama in turn.   Read more »

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  • Truly historical yet still modern

    hotel where the Shanghai Communique was signed still appeals. Yang Yijun reports. On Feb 28, 1972, former US president Richard Nixon and former Premier of China Zhou Enlai signed the ice-breaking Shanghai Communique at the Grand Hall of Jin Jiang Hotel. The 8:07 PM from China Daily Read more »

  • Why the DNC?

    this is certainly all speculative -- it was mostly likely as an influence. It wasn't treated as an order. At the same time: Richard Nixon certainly gave the orders that put the whole thing in motion and gave it bureaucratic clout within the White House and 6:41 PM from Jonathan Bernstein Read more »

  • Fact check: Obama's 'truth team' wrong on GOP donor

    published a "brief history" of some major GOP donors. Some — including Democratic pollster Doug Schoen— compared it to Richard Nixon's "enemies list." Obama campaign, April 20: Thomas O'Malley is the CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining 4:48 PM from USA Today Read more »

  • A Long-Awaited Reply

    chaotic day at the White House. That was the day that Gerald Ford, barely a month into his term as President, gave Richard Nixon a full pardon for any crimes he may have committed in connection with the Watergate scandal. Ford’s decision was widely criticized, 3:04 PM from The Washingtonian Read more »

  • Previewing President Romney’s Regime

    Party is right. What voters decide in November will change the face of America for years to come, as did the elections of Richard Nixon in 1968 and George W. Bush in 2000. If Willard Mitt Romney takes the oath of office next January with Republican control   from The Moderate Voice Read more »

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About Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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