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Born: 9 January 1913 · Died: 22 April 1994 · Age at death: 81
Richard Nixon died aged 81. He was born on 9 January 1913 and died on 22 April 1994.
37th US President who opened relations with China but resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal, the only president to do so
Did you know?He was a multi-instrumentalist who played the piano and violin, though he never learned to read sheet music.
Nixon's story is one of remarkable political comebacks and a dramatic fall. After losing the 1960 presidential race and the 1962 California governor's race, he returned to win the White House in 1968. His presidency produced major achievements, including a historic visit to China in 1972, arms control agreements with the Soviet Union and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Yet the Watergate scandal, involving a break-in and a cover-up, led him to become the first US president to resign, in 1974. He spent his later years rebuilding his reputation as an elder statesman on foreign policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
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“People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.”
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37th US president, born 1913
Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda on 9 January 1913.
He was Vice President under Eisenhower.
He opened relations with China in 1972.
He resigned over Watergate in 1974.
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Did you know?He is the only US president to have resigned.
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From February 21 to 28, 1972, the president of the United States Richard Nixon visited Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the culmination of his administration's efforts to establish relations with the PRC after years of U.S. diplomatic policy that favored the Republic of China in Taiwan.
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The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon.
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