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Richard
Milhous Nixon - 36th Vice President
Party: Republican
Term: Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961
Age at Inauguration: 40
Life Span: Jan 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994 [81]
President:Dwight Eisenhower |
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- Credited with visiting over 54 countries,
Richard Nixon was the most traveled vice president in history
- While touring the Latin American countries
his party was pelted with eggs and rocks, and on one occasion
it was feared an unruly mob would overturn his car
- The U.S. Marines were called to the
coast of Venezuela to rescue him
- In 1959 he toured the Soviet Union
and met with Premiere Khrushchev while attending an exhibition
of a typical American home, complete with kitchen
- During a discussion the Premiere started
poking his finger in Nixon's chest claiming Soviet superiority
in the manufacture of washing machines
- Nixon stood eye-to-eye with Khrushchev
in what later became known as the "Kitchen Debate"
and rocketed to stardom as a world leader
- As vice president he had two missions:
to dispel liberals and weed out the communists
- He was defeated for the presidency
in 1960 by John Kennedy, but made a miraculous political comeback
by being elected in 1968 President Richard
Nixon
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