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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Join MemoriesKaren Higdon Second daughter Julie Nixon is born
Karen Higdon Birth of first daughter Tricia Nixon
Karen Higdon Started studying political science at Whittier College from 1930 to 1934
Karen Higdon Went to East Whittier Elementary School in California from 1917 to 1923
Karen Higdon Started studying Law at Duke University School of Law from 1934 to 1937
Karen Higdon Went to Whittier High School from 1928 to 1930
Karen Higdon Married to Pat Ryan Nixon for 53 years from 1940 to 1993
Karen Higdon Born 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, U.S.
Karen Higdon Went to Fullerton Union High School from 1927 to 1928
Karen Higdon Nixon launched his first campaign for President of the United States
Karen Higdon Nixon defeated Humphrey by nearly 500,000 votes in the 1968 presidential election
Karen Higdon He resigned his commission on New Year's Day 1946
Karen Higdon President Ford granted Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon," which ended any possibility of an indictmen
Karen Higdon Nixon subsequently ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam by 1973
Karen Higdon Nixon at the Washington Senators' 1969 Opening Day
Karen Higdon Nixon visited South Vietnam, where he met with his U.S. military commanders and President Nguyen Van Thieu
Karen Higdon The Watergate Scandal: the "Smoking Gun Tape" is released on August 5, 1974, andNixon accepted blame for misleading the country
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 Higdon He was inducted into the Navy in August 1942
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
Richard Nixon Interview- Vietnam (Merv Griffin Show 1966)
Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening
He began practicing with the law firm Wingert and Bewley in Whittier
Karen Higdon Nixon was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1969
Karen Higdon Nixon published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon," the first of ten books he was to author in his retirement
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 Higdon President Eisenhower sent Nixon to the Soviet Union for the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow
Karen Higdon Nixon won the election to California's 12th congressional district, receiving 65,586 votes to Voorhis' 49,994
Karen Higdon Nixon and his wife traveled to China
Karen Higdon The family moved to New York City, where Nixon became a senior partner in the law firm Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander
Karen Higdon Nixon ran as a vice-presidential candidate to Eisenhower's campaign for presidency which they won
Karen Higdon He opened up his own branch of Wingert and Bewley in La Habra, California, and became a full partner in the firm
Karen Higdon Nixon approved a five-year cooperative program between NASA and the Soviet space program