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Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, CA on January 9, 1913
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Mother : Hannah Milhous Nixon
Father : Francis A. Nixon
Siblings : Edward Nixon, Harold Samuel Nixon, Donald Nixon, Arthur Burdg Nixon -
Nixon attended local Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he earned a reputation as a formidable debater, a standout in college drama productions and a successful athlete. Upon graduation from Whittier in 1934, Nixon received a full scholarship to Duke University Law School in Durham, N.C.
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Wife : Patricia Ryan
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During WWII he served as Navy lintuent. After leaving the service he was elected into Congress from his California district, he won the Senate seat.
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Nixon was elected Vice President 1952 by General Eisenhower. Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration.
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He was elected president in 1968. While in office he ended the draft. His was in presidency when the first man walked the moon
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The "Watergate" scandal was what made Richard Nixon resign from presidency. He was the only president to resign
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During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina.
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Richard Nixon died on April 22,1994. In his last years he had wrote books on how presidency was.
