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Birth
Richard M. Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 to Hannah Milhous Nixon and Francis Anthony Nixon. -
Richard M. Nixon's Mom,Dad, and Siblings info
Richard M. Nixon's mother's name is Hannah Milhous Nixon. Hannah married Francis Anthony Nixon and had 5 boys, Edward, Arthur, Donald, Harold, and Richard Nixon. -
1st Fun Fact
Richard Nixon almost became an FBI agent in the 1930s. Nixon applied to the agency but never heard back about his application. He had been accepted but then budget cuts eliminated his position. -
2nd Fun Fact
Nixon had a chance to attend Harvard but had to decline. As a student, Richard Nixon was third in his class and was offered a tuition grant to Harvard, but he was needed at home by his family. -
3rd Fun Fact
Richard M. Nixon was an outstanding law student. After graduating from Whittier College in California, Nixon received a full scholarship to Duke Law and graduated third in his class. -
Education
Richard M. Nixon went to Duke University Law School in 1937 and majored in history. He then became a lawyer. -
Marriage
Richard Milhous Nixon married Pat Catherine Ryan on June 21, 1940 at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. -
Jobs, Careers and other Governmental positions
Richard M. Nixon worked as a lawyer, a naval officer, a U.S Office of Emergency Management attorney, a U.S representative and senator of California, and the vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower before he was a President of the United States. -
4th Fun Fact
Nixon was a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II. He served in a variety of administrative positions but didn’t see combat during his time in the Pacific. -
Military experience
When Richard M. Nixon was in the military he was a naval officer in the navy from 1945--1966. He got promoted to be a lieutenant junior grade in the United States Naval Reserve on June 15, 1942. -
Birth of Tricia Nixon Cox
Tricia Nixon Cox was born in 1946 to Pat and Richard Nixon and later in 1971 married Edward F. Cox and Tricia are still living to this day. Tricia also had a son named Christopher Nixon Cox. -
Programs/laws developed
Richard Nixon developed the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, the Marshall Plan, the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act, and he signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973. -
Birth of Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Julie Nixon Eisenhower was born in 1948 to Pat and Richard Nixon and later in 1968 married David Eisenhower and they both are still living to this day. Julie has one son named Alex Richard Eisenhower, and two daughters named Jennie Eisenhower and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower. -
1st Newsworthy event
Nixon taunted Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas by calling her "the pink lady", and Nixon got nominated for his presidency. -
5th Fun Fact
Richard M. Nixon and Franklin Roosevelt are the only two people to appear on a national presidential ticket five times. -
6th Fun Fact
Nixon was only 39 years old when he ran for vice president in 1952. Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower didn’t have a preference for a running mate, and party leaders favored Nixon for his anti-Communist stance and his strength in California -
7th Fun Fact
The Checkers speech was partially intended as an inside joke about FDR. The national TV speech that saved Nixon’s career in 1952 was a masterful political move, but the reference to Checkers the dog was meant as a jab at FDR’s famous Fala speech that Republicans would get. Years later, Nixon was still upset that it was called the Checkers speech and people mostly remembered the reference to his pet dog. -
Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech(2nd Newsworthy event)
The Checkers speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon, six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President -
3rd Newsworthy event
Dwight D. Eisenhower had a heart attack, which led to Richard M. Nixon taking over Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency for 3 months -
4th Newsworthy event
Richard M. Nixon got defeated by John F. Kennedy for an election in 1960, but made Richard M. Nixon knew that his destiny was politics, so he tried again. -
8th Fun Fact
Nixon survived two potentially fatal political losses in 1960 and 1962. Defeats in the presidential campaign against John F. Kennedy and the 1962 Californian governor’s race led many political observers to predict Nixon’s career was over. Within six years, he was President after winning a hard-fought campaign in 1968. -
Political Party
Richard M. Nixon joined the republicans in 1968 when he became president of the United States. -
Elected to office
Richard M. Nixon got elected for president in the year 1968 and he got elected by 301 electoral college votes in a three-way race against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in Miami. -
5th Newsworthy event
Richard M. Nixon got nominated for president in Miami because he got engaged into an active campaign to win delegates to the Republican National Convention. Nixon got nominated for president because he got nominated at the first ballot. -
9th Fun Fact
Nixon used the comedy show “Laugh-In” to get elected. At least, that is what Nixon reportedly said after he did a cameo appearance on the show just weeks before the 1968 election. Hubert Humphrey refused to make a similar appearance on the show. -
Richard Nixon Watergate scandal
Richard Nixon was the only president to resign from office because he took part in the Watergate scandal. The Watergate scandal, an interlocking political scandal of the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon that was revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. -
Date Richard M. Nixon left office
Richard M. Nixon resigned office on August 9,1974 due to the Watergate scandal that Richard M. Nixon took part in. -
Location Nixon retired to
President Richard M. Nixon's family went to San Clemente, California after Richard M. Nixon retired from his presidency on August 9,1974. -
Nixon Library
The Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California was named after Richard M. Nixon, Where Pat and Richard Nixon are buried to this day. -
Richard M. Nixon's Death/Burial
Richard M. Nixon died on April 22, 1994 due to a stroke after 81 years of life and was buried in Yorba Linda, California. Richard's wife, Pat Nixon, also died when she was 81 years old.