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    Celebrating the life of

    Richard Nixon

    09 Jan 2013 - 22 Apr 1994

    Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was and is still the only president to resign the office. He is survived by his two daughters.

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    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Second daughter Julie Nixon is born

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Birth of first daughter Tricia Nixon

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Started studying political science at Whittier College from 1930 to 1934

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Went to East Whittier Elementary School in California from 1917 to 1923

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Started studying Law at Duke University School of Law from 1934 to 1937

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Went to Whittier High School from 1928 to 1930

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Married to Pat Ryan Nixon for 53 years from 1940 to 1993

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Born 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, U.S.

    8 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Went to Fullerton Union High School from 1927 to 1928

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon launched his first campaign for President of the United States

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon defeated Humphrey by nearly 500,000 votes in the 1968 presidential election

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon He resigned his commission on New Year's Day 1946

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon President Ford granted Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon," which ended any possibility of an indictmen

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon subsequently ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam by 1973

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon at the Washington Senators' 1969 Opening Day

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon visited South Vietnam, where he met with his U.S. military commanders and President Nguyen Van Thieu

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon The Watergate Scandal: the "Smoking Gun Tape" is released on August 5, 1974, andNixon accepted blame for misleading the country

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon won the election to Senate by almost twenty percentage points

    Nixon suffered a severe stroke on April 18, 1994 - He passed away with his daughters at his bedside

    Karen Higdon9 Aug 2014
    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon He was inducted into the Navy in August 1942

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon The couple moved to Washington, D.C., where Nixon took a job at the Office of Price Administration

    Pat Nixon died on June 22, 1993, of emphysema and lung cancer

    Karen Higdon9 Aug 2014

    Richard Nixon Interview- Vietnam (Merv Griffin Show 1966)

    Karen Higdon9 Aug 2014

    Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening

    Karen Higdon9 Aug 2014

    He began practicing with the law firm Wingert and Bewley in Whittier

    Karen Higdon9 Aug 2014
    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1969

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon," the first of ten books he was to author in his retirement

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon entered his name on the New Hampshire primary ballot on January 5, 1972

    He met with British talk-show host and producer David Frost, who paid him $600,000 for a series of sit-down interviews

    Karen Higdon9 Aug 2014
    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon President Eisenhower sent Nixon to the Soviet Union for the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon won the election to California's 12th congressional district, receiving 65,586 votes to Voorhis' 49,994

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon and his wife traveled to China

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon The family moved to New York City, where Nixon became a senior partner in the law firm Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon ran as a vice-presidential candidate to Eisenhower's campaign for presidency which they won

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon He opened up his own branch of Wingert and Bewley in La Habra, California, and became a full partner in the firm

    9 Aug 2014

    Karen Higdon Nixon approved a five-year cooperative program between NASA and the Soviet space program