On the evening of August 8, 1974, in a nationally televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announced his intention to resign his office effective noon the next day. With impeachment certain for his criminal involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to become the first president in American history to resign. ''By taking this action,'' he said in the subdued yet dramatic address from the Oval Office, ''I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.'' At noon the next day, Nixon officially ended his term as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Before departing with his family in a helicopter from the White House lawn, he smiled farewell and enigmatically raised his arms in a victory or peace salute. A moment later, the helicopter door was closed and the Nixon family began their journey home to San Clemente, California. Meanwhile, in the...
On October 20, 1973, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned after refusing to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who earlier in the day had announced that he would not...
On November 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon gave a televised press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover-up, despite recent congressional testimony by former...
On September 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he committed or may have committed while in office. Nixon had resigned as president on...
On November 6, 1962, Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presidential candidate in 1960, was defeated by Democrat Edmund ''Pat'' Brown in his bid for California's gubernatorial seat. The next...
On August 8, 1974, in an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings...
On September 23, 1952, Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, the Republican candidate for the vice presidency, appeared on national television to defend himself against reports that he had kept a...
On October 10, 1973, less than a year before Richard M. Nixon's resignation as president of the United States, Spiro Agnew became the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. The same day,...
Spiro Agnew, President Richard M. Nixon's first vice president, was one of the nation's most outspoken critics of the antiwar and counterculture movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In...
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On April 22, 1994, former president Richard M. Nixon died in New York City of complications resulting from a stroke he suffered on April 19. He was eighty-one years old. Undoubtedly the most...
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