* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.

In 1973, there was internal conflict over whether to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.

In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase " Impeach Nixon ".

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

* 1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

* 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the " Nixon tapes " to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

* 1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.

* 1973 – U. S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U. S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors " I am not a crook.

* 1973 – " Saturday Night Massacre ": President Richard Nixon fires U. S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

* 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

* 1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

When Nixon left in 1973, Tom Lavery began drawing the strip, who was then followed by Frank McDiarmid in 1976.

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Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev aboard the USS Sequoia ( presidential yacht ) | USS Sequoia, June 19, 1973

Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).

Meeting between US president Richard Nixon and vice president Gerald Ford and Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1973

In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations.

When Cox refused to drop his subpoena, on October 20, 1973, Nixon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus for refusing to fire the special prosecutor.

Responding to the allegations of possible wrongdoing, in front of 400 Associated Press managing editors on November 17, 1973, Nixon stated emphatically, " I'm not a crook.

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

In the week before Nixon's resignation, Ehrlichman and Haldeman unsuccessfully tried to get Nixon to grant them the pardons which Nixon had promised them before their April 1973 resignations.

About 900, 000 records spanning the time period from 1973 to 1976 can be accessed online from the National Archives and Records Administration.

** The United States Energy Research and Development Administration is founded, in response to the 1973 oil crisis.

In 1973, the Veterans Administration assumed another major responsibility when the National Cemetery System ( NCS ) ( except for Arlington National Cemetery ) was transferred to the Veterans Administration from the Department of the Army.

Federal disaster relief and recovery was brought under the umbrella of the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ), in 1973 by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1973, and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration was created as an organizational unit within the department.

The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on 1 July 1973, by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, signed by President Richard Nixon on 28 July 1973.

In 1973, a 50th percentile male dummy was released, and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) undertook an agreement with General Motors to produce a model exceeding Hybrid II's performance in a number of specific areas.

* The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan ( 1973 ) ISBN 0-394-46354-4.

After practicing corporate law in New York, he served in the Nixon Administration as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1971 to 1973 ; this position led to his being called as a prosecution witness against former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans in an influence-peddling case stemming from international financier Robert Vesco's $ 200, 000 contribution to the Nixon reelection campaign.

From December 4, 1973, Simon simultaneously launched and administered the Federal Energy Administration at the height of the oil embargo.

( 1973 ), Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Patters of Government and Administration.

( 1973 ), Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Patters of Government and Administration.

For the USA model only, 1973 modifications mandated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) included energy-absorbing bumpers.

Consequently in late 1972, the Federal Aviation Administration required that all airlines begin screening passengers and their carry-on baggage by January 5, 1973.

Johnson left the position in 1973 to take a high position with the former Farmers Home Administration in Washington, D. C., and was replaced by Ken Coon, who carried the party's gubernatorial banner in 1974 against David Hampton Pryor.

and Ph. D. degrees from the University of London in 1968 and 1971 respectively, as well as a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in 1973.

Gilbert R. Tredway, a retired historian at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky, in his 1973 study Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana found most Indiana Democrats were loyal to the Union and desired national reunification.

( 1973 ), Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Patterns of Government and Administration, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

( 1973 ), Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Patterns of Government and Administration, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

The sudden increase in oil prices in 1973 coupled with the possibility of new Mexican oil deposits in the Bay of Campeche, gave Echeverría a strong bargaining position against the Nixon Administration in the United States.

After 6½ years of tumultuous debate, the Commission recommended that there should not be a single event, and Congress dissolved it on December 11, 1973, and created the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration ( ARBA ), which was charged with encouraging and coordinating locally sponsored events.