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Richard
Nixon - 37th President
Party: Republican
Term: Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974
Age at Inauguration: 56
Life Span: Jan 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994 [81]
Spouse: Thelma "Pat" Ryan
- Age at Marriage: 27
Vice President: Spiro Agnew - Gerald Ford |
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- Richard Nixon boasted he had met the
girl he wanted to marry the minute he saw Pat Ryan, but it took
two years before he persuaded her to marry him
- Nixon lost his bit for the presidency
in 1960 after serving eight years as vice president for Dwight
Eisenhower
Vice President Richard Nixon
- Elected in 1968, the Watergate scandal
led to his resignation during his second term on August 9, 1974.
- His early demise from office overshadowed
his accomplishments of being the first seated president to visit
the Soviet Union, and Mainland China
- In July 1969 the dream of John Kennedy
was fulfilled when United States astronauts landed and walked
on the moon
- Nixon made the most expensive phone
call in history when he telephoned the crew of Apollo 11 on the
lunar surface
- The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the
Constitution, ratified by a majority of the states in 1971, granted
suffrage to eighteen year-olds, in his term
- Nixon holds the record for running
in five major campaigns and winning four of the contests
- He was only one of five men elected
to the presidency after serving as vice president
- Nixon is the only person to score
a hole-in-one at golf and then become president Golfing
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