Was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the day that A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. [in a televised address to the nation, November 17, 1973] In all my years of public service I have never obstructed justice. Despite a deep wound, he got up and ran after the buggy as his mother urged it to stop. [caught on tape, advice to incoming FBI head, L. Patrick Gray] Never, never figure that anyone's your friend. Claiming executive privilege, Nixon nevertheless refused to release potentially damning material, including White House tape recordings that allegedly revealed details of CREEP's plans to sabotage political opponents and disrupt the FBI's investigation. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they live The man at the center of Watergate was far different from the way he was portrayed by the press, reveals Monica Crowley (pictured at right), who worked closely with him as his foreign policy assistant for the last four years of his life. A blood clot resulting from the atrial fibrillation he had suffered for many years had formed in his upper heart, broken off, and traveled to his brain. Lived out his years in his Manhattan triplex at 810 Fifth Avenue, a building that had belonged to erstwhile political rival The plan backfired. Four debates were scheduled between Nixon and Kennedy, and Nixon had his work cut out for himself from the beginning.During the process, he was recovering from the flu and appeared tired, and then when he arrived at the TV studio, Nixon chose to wear little TV makeup, fearing the press would accuse him of trying to upstage Kennedy's tan, crisp look. He was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running mate in 1952 and 1956 and the Republican presidential nominee in 1960, 1968 and 1972. His father was a service station owner and grocer, who also owned a small lemon farm in Yorba Linda. His funeral also marked the last major public appearance of former President Ronald Reagan, who in November of that year announced he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.Ten years later, on June 5, 2004, Reagan would become the first former president after Nixon to die. Some historians believe the conflict was the closest the world has come to nuclear warfare, more than the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The nickname of the Nixon Library is "Crook Hall". You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentleman, this is my last press conference. Billy Graham officiated at the funeral service. I've earned everything I've got. He cultivated support from the Republican base, which respected his knowledge of politics and international affairs. . It's our prosperity we have to protect, not labour. He established what became known as the Nixon Doctrine (also called "Vietnamization"), replacing American troops with Vietnamese soldiers. But Richard Nixon’s death left his daughters to sort out a tangle of controversial bequests and hard decisions about the future of the Nixon Foundation that runs the library and birthplace. In 1960, was the last Republican nominee for U.S. President to receive more than twenty percent of the black vote in the general election. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A case in point was the Family Assistance Plan. Although Nixon held little formal power as vice president, perhaps out of necessity, he expanded the office to an important and prominent post during his two terms. So much so, that he was once considered for the job of Commissioner of Baseball. Is one of only two men to appear on a major party's presidential ticket five times: the other is Nixon was offered a tuition grant to attend Harvard University, but his brother Harold's continued illness and the need for their mother to care for him meant Richard was needed at the store. It's hard to take being on the top--or on the bottom. Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, USA as Richard Milhous Nixon. The Redskins ended up losing 14-7, thus enabling the Dolphins to complete their perfect season in 1972 - to date, the only perfect (unbeaten and untied) season in NFL history. . With his calm, conservative voice, Nixon presented a sharp contrast to the escalating war in Vietnam and the growing antiwar protests. I am not going to criticize my opponent's youth and inexperience. He earned seven Oscar nominations and was married twice to actress Elizabeth Taylor.British entrepreneur Richard Branson launched Virgin Records in the early 1970s, eventually building his business into the multinational Virgin Group.From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma! While Nixon's campaign promise in 1968 was to draw down the size of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the bombings of North Vietnam and incursions into Laos and Cambodia created a political firestorm. He died at 9:08 p.m. on April 22… This brought Hiss a perjury charge and five years in prison, while Nixon's hostile questioning of Hiss during the committee hearings went a long way toward cementing his national reputation as a fervent anti-Communist.In 1950, Nixon successfully ran for the United States Senate against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. Mentioned in the songs "Young Americans" by Due to a spot on his lungs, he was forbidden from playing sports at the age of twelve. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. We can't learn from one another, until we stop shouting at one another . Nixon's early life was hard, as he characterized by saying, "We were poor, but the glory of it was we didn't know it." Fifth was the Endangered Species Act (1973), and the sixth was the Safe Drinking Water Act (1974). Nixon journeyed to the Soviet Union in 1986 and on his return sent President Reagan a lengthy memorandum containing foreign policy suggestions and his personal impressions of Mikhail Gorbachev. Here's Johnson, this big, strong, intelligent tough guy, practically getting so emotional that he'd almost cry because his critics didn't appreciate him.