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Richard Milhous Nixon Wiki Biography

• Richard Milhous Nixon, born in Yorba Linda, California, USA, on 9 January 1913, died on 22 April 1994. 
• Nixon is best known to the world as the 37th President of the United States, and, as a result of the Watergate scandal, became the first to resign from that position. 
• His career, from 1942 to 1974, was active. 
• It is estimated, according to reports, that Nixon’s total net worth was $15 million, a sum he accumulated as a politician during his most prosperous career. 
• After his family’s ranch went bankrupt in 1922, Richard grew up in Whittier. 
• He had four siblings, but one of his brothers passed away at the age of 7. 
• His mother was a Quaker, and his father later converted to the Quaker faith. 
• As a consequence, Nixon was also raised as a Quaker, suggesting that he also needed to abstain from alcohol, swearing, and dancing. 
• With regard to his schooling, for a brief period, before he moved to Whittier High School, Nixon was a student of Fullerton High School. 
• His next success was a position in the government of Dwight Eisenhower, serving as vice president from 1953 until 1961, which boosted his net worth further. 
• His first presidential bid came in 1960, but he lost to Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy, but Nixon awaited his five minutes of glory when he was sworn in as the 37th President of the United States on January 20, 1969. 
• His reign, however, only lasted for a couple of years, and during that time his net worth increased significantly. 
• In 1972, after the Watergate debacle, Nixon was forced to resign from office. 
• Two years later, on 8 September 1974, Nixon was pardoned by the man who had served as his vice president, President Gerald Ford. 
• Richard retired from politics after his resignation and began writing his memoirs, which were published six years later under the title “RN: Richard Nixon’s Memoirs.” 
• After his retirement, he kept writing novels, publishing a total of nine, and he traveled around the world as well. 
• Nixon married Pat Nixon in his private life from 1940 until 1993 when she died of lung cancer. 
• Richard died in New York City on 22 April 1994 at the age of 81, after suffering a major stroke, just 10 months after his wife’s death. 
• Five days after the commemoration, the then President, Bill Clinton, paid tribute to the 37th President. 

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Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes

• [in a televised address to the nation, November 17, 1973] In all my years of public service I have never obstructed justice. People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.
• [on violating citizen’s rights] When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.
• [to reporters on the day after losing the California governorship race to Edmund Brown, 1962] Just think how much you’re going to be missing. You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.
• [from his interview with David Frost] I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life.
• [on Presidential appointments] Perle Mesta wasn’t sent to Luxembourg because she had big bosoms. Perle Mesta went to Luxembourg because she made a good contribution. She was a very good ambassador.
• It’s our prosperity we have to protect, not labor.
• We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation.
• The best politics is poetry, not prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Mario Cuomo is a poet, and Michael Dukakis is a word processor.
• It is necessary to struggle, to be embattled, to be knocked down, and to have to get up. Renewal, Americans are crazy for renewal.
• [more advice to Reagan] Shaking up a team at midterm is not a sign of weakness. Done the right way, it increases your status at home and abroad as a strong leader who will not tolerate ineffectiveness, let alone disloyalty or dishonesty. I speak from experience. Some charged me with being too tough on subordinates. In retrospect, had I been tough, I might have avoided some of the problems that plagued me at the last.
• [some campaigning advice to Ronald Reagan] Let Carter come on uptight, nitpicking and mean. You should be a contrast, strong but not shrill; in command, poised, the big man versus the little man.
• [from a conference call to news organizations, September 8, 1974] I know many fair-minded people believe that my motivations and actions in the Watergate affair were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments have contributed to that belief and seem to support it. This burden is the heaviest one of all to bear. That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
• [his final remarks to the White House staff upon resigning] Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
• I think President Johnson dies of a broken heart, I really do. 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. He, till the very last, thought that he might be able to win them. And the point is, rather than have them love him, he should have done what he could have done very well – have them respect him. And in the end, he lost. He neither gained the love nor retained the respect.
• [on E. Howard Hunt and the CIA] I want the break-in. Hell, they do that. You’re to break into the place, rifle the files and bring them in..Just go in and take it.
• If it hadn’t been for Edgar Hoover, I couldn’t have carried out my responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief. Period. He is a pillar of strength in a city of weak men.
• [on President Eisenhower] He was a far more complex and devious man than most people realize, in the best sense of those words. Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four lines of reasoning to a single problem… His thoughts far outraced his speech and this gave rise to his frequent’scrambled syntax’.
• [caught on tape, advice to incoming FBI head, L. Patrick Gray] Never, never figure that anyone’s your friend. Never, never, never. You’ve got to be a conspirator. You’ve got to be totally ruthless. You’ve got to appear to be a nice guy. But underneath you need to be steely tough. That, believe me, is the way to run the bureau.
• [from the Watergate tapes] Goddamn it, get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get it.
• Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal . . . If the president, for example, approves something because of the national security, or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude, then the president’s decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law. Otherwise, they’re in an impossible position.
• In wartime, a president does have certain extraordinary powers which would make acts that would otherwise be unlawful, lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the nation and the Constitution, which is essential for the rights we’re all talking about.
• I had never been a quitter.
• We can’t learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another . . . until our words can be heard.
• Certainly in the next 50 years, we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
• [on why one of the Watergate tapes had 18 minutes erased] Oh that was just an accident that happened.
• Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
• Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
• If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
• I gave ’em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.
• Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top–or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things . . . Life is one crisis after another.
• I am not a crook!
• You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentleman, this is my last press conference.

Richard Milhous Nixon Important Facts

• 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. He remained in his hometown and attended Whittier College, his expenses there covered by a bequest from his maternal grandfather.
• He was raised in Whittier, California in Los Angeles county.
• Due to a pot on his lungs, he was forbidden from playing sports as a child.
• 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. Following this trip, Nixon was ranked in a Gallup poll as one of the ten most admired men in the world.
• 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.
• Nixon’s funeral was attended by 5 US Presidents and their First Ladies: Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton), George Bush (& Barbara Bush), Ronald Reagan (& Nancy Reagan), Jimmy Carter (& Rosalynn Carter), Gerald Ford (& Betty Ford), (April 27, 1994).
• Although he publicly supported President Eisenhower’s handling of the Suez Crisis at the time, he later said he felt the United States had made a mistake in siding with the Soviet Union against the UK, France and Israel. Nixon felt he was able to draw on the mistakes of 1956 when he handled the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
• Nixon’s funeral was broadcast live by NBC.
• Jack Kirby has said that he based much of the Superman villain ”Darkseid” on Nixon.
• While playing poker in the Navy, he once bluffed a lieutenant commander out of $1500 with only a pair of deuces.
• Drew up a play that he thought would help the Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VII in 1973. The plan backfired. 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.
• Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
• Related by blood to three other U.S Presidents: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce, and George W. Bush.
• First US president whose portrayals in movies have resulted in more than one Oscar nomination — Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995) and Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon (2008).
• Often played a grand piano to entertain his executive guests.
• First US vice-president to appear on the postage stamp of a foreign country when in 1958 he featured on Ecuador’s 2-sucre stamp with flags of the US and Ecuador.
• During his presidential tenure, the first White House worship to be conducted by a Jewish rabbi was celebrated (June 1969).
• His predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, died two days after Nixon’s second inauguration, leaving him the only living US president.
• The only U.S President to be born in California.
• In 1952, Nixon appeared on his first of 55 TIME magazine covers, a record still unbroken by any other single person (2008).
• Was an excellent poker player.
• In 1975, after receiving a $2 million advance for his memoirs, British TV personality David Frost, offered him between $600,000 and $1 million for a series of 4 interviews.
• Was an avid baseball fan. So much so, that he was once considered for the job of Commissioner of Baseball.
• Once applied to be an FBI agent, but the quota for that year had been filled.
• Is one of only two men to appear on a major party’s presidential ticket five times: the other is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who after an unsuccessful campaign as the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1920, won four successive presidential campaigns in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944. Republican stalwart Nixon won the vice presidency twice as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running-mate in 1952 and 1956, but lost to John F. Kennedy in his first bid for the presidency in 1960. Nixon subsequently won two terms as president, in 1968 and 1972.
• After Watergate, bumper stickers were produced with the slogan, “Don’t blame me. I’m from Massachusetts.” It is a reference to the only state that his opponent George McGovern carried in the 1972 election.
• He had an infamous “List of Enemies” during the 1972 presidential election which included Paul Newman, Hugh M. Hefner, Gene Hackman, Burt Lancaster and even the somewhat conservative Steve McQueen as well as New York Jets quarterback, Joe Namath. He also had a list of seven “friends” including Billy Graham, Bob Hope, John Wayne, and Laraine Day.
• The nickname of the Nixon Library is “Crook Hall”.
• Served as Vice-President under Dwight D. Eisenhower,.
• Was the first American politician to receive a review in Variety following his Checkers speech.
• Ordered Rolling Stone journalist Hunter S. Thompson banned from the White House.
• Lived out his years in his Manhattan triplex at 810 Fifth Avenue, a building that had belonged to erstwhile political rival Nelson Rockefeller
• His favorite movie was Patton (1970).
• Stevie Wonder wrote two songs criticizing him – “He’s Misstra Know-It-All” and “You Haven’t Done Nothin'”.
• The last former American president to die in the 20th century.
• When he was three years old, he fell out of a horse-drawn carriage in which he was riding with his mother and brother, and one of the wheels ran over his head. Despite a deep wound, he got up and ran after the buggy as his mother urged it to stop. The accident left him with a visible scar, which is why for the rest of his life he combed his hair straight back rather than parting it on the side.
• Has a park named after him in central Pennsylvania.
• Before its premiere, he was given a private screening of 1776 (1972). He objected to the musical number “Cool Considerate Men,” so the number was cut from the theatrical release. The song was restored on the laserdisc version as well as the Director’s Cut DVD.
• In 1973, his likeness appeared on a 4 cent postage label issued by the (now defunct) Independent Postal System of America.
• First rose to political prominence as a U.S. Representative in 1948 when he was instrumental in bringing charges against Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist spy,.
• During his campaign for President in 1960, he and John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, engaged in the first-ever televised Presidential debates. Kennedy, with his youthful enthusiasm and good looks, appeared more comfortable, while Nixon, who was definitely the more qualified of the two, looked stiff and nervous. Experts say this was the key factor that got Kennedy elected.
• Ran for governor of California in 1962 and lost to Edmund G. Brown(“Pat”). It was after this political defeat that he uttered his famous quote, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore…..” Interestingly enough, six years later, he was elected President of the United States.
• As Vice-President, he once toured a model home with former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and got into a heated argument with the premier over U.S.-Soviet relations. At one point, Nixon pointed a finger in Khruschev’s face and said, ‘You don’t know everything!’.
• Pictured on a 32¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued 26 April 1995, 1 year and 4 days following his death.
• Died on V.I. Lenin’s birthday.
• Senator Bob Dole, along with Rev. Billy Graham and President Bill Clinton, eulogized Nixon at his funeral in April of 1994.
• The Nixon gravemarkers, which were made of a heavy, dark marble, are said to be a gift from a local gravestone vendor, who personally delivered them to the Nixon Library in his pick-up truck.
• Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon are buried alongside one another between the Rose Garden and his birth home at the Nixon Libary. Funerals for both were held on the Library grounds.
• Was an adviser to President Bill Clinton, early in Clinton’s term, on the views of Russia. He was also received as a guest in the Clinton White House. This marked the first time that any post-Watergate President had allowed the disgraced former Commander-In-Chief to visit the White House, as well as serve as an advisor.
• Hours before his sudden stroke (which caused his death), Nixon sent a letter of best wishes along with a book to a friend of someone who had suffered a stroke. The letter explained his heartfelt concern, and he hoped that the book, which discusses the stroke that Pat Nixon suffered in the 1970s, would be of some aid. A copy of the letter he wrote is on display at his “study exhibit” at the Nixon Library.
• Held a law office in La Habra, California (near his birth city), in his early days before congress. The building was a landmark at one time.
• Graduated from Fullerton High School.
• Dedicated his Presidential Libary, located in Yorba Linda, California, on July 9, 1990 – with President George Bush and former Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan in attendance.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower was going to drop him as Vice President from his second Presidential ticket in favor of Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, but then thought it might be reflected back as weakness on him and kept Nixon.
• Graduated from Whittier College and Duke University Law School.
• In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record.
• Served in the Navy during WWII.
• Two daughters, Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon. Julie married David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, under whom Nixon served as Vice-President.
• Was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the day that John F. Kennedy was shot.
• Only U.S. president to resign from office.
• (January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974) 37th President of the United States of America.
• Was the second Quaker (that is, Society of Friends) who served as President of the United States, the first being President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933). His mother was descended from a long line of Quakers, the Milhouses.
• Was U.S. Vice President from 1953-1961.
• Last NY Journal American Tournament of Orators held at the old Carnegie Hall in 1956 was attended by the Vice President

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