Prior to Richard Nixon's announcement of his candidacy, Pat's brother Tom Ryan said, " Pat told me that if Dick ran for governor she was going to take her shoe to him.

Nixon's younger brother, Donell Nixon, also played in the Major Leagues from 1987 through 1990 for the Seattle Mariners, the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles.

Nixon had long been angry with Anderson, blaming Anderson's election eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother < ref >

Her father William Houston Blount, ran Vulcan Materials for many years and his brother Winton M. " Red " Blount, Postmaster General in Richard Nixon's cabinet.

* During the 1972 U. S. presidential election, Donald H. Segretti, a political operative for President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign, released a faked letter, on Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead, falsely alleging that Senator Henry " Scoop " Jackson, against whom Muskie was running for the Democratic Party's nomination, had had an illegitimate child with a seventeen-year-old.

Gray, in his book In Nixon's Web, even goes so far as to publish an e-mail and telephone exchange he had with Donald Santarelli, a Washington lawyer who was a justice department official during Watergate, in which Santarelli confirmed to Gray that he was the source behind statements Woodward recorded in notes he has attributed to Deep Throat.

The Nixon Committee to Re-elect the President ( CRP ), a private non-governmental campaign entity, used funds from its coffers to pay for, and later cover up, " dirty tricks " performed against opponents by Richard Nixon's employee, Donald Segretti.

Charges emerged following the Watergate scandal that linked Vesco with illegal funding for a company owned by Donald A. Nixon ( Richard Nixon's nephew ).

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

His well-known operas include Nixon in China ( 1987 ), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.

The Chairman Dances ( Foxtrot for Orchestra ) ( 1985 ): This is a by-product of Nixon in China, set in the three days of President Nixon's visit to Beijing in February 1972.

Nixon in China ( 1987 ): The opera, in three acts, is based on Richard Nixon's visit to China on February 21 – 25, 1972.

As late as early 1968, Agnew was a strong supporter of Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents, but by June had switched to supporting Nixon.

Notwithstanding his past temporary friendly relations with Nixon, who defeated U. S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for reelection, Smith became the first national television commentator to call for Nixon's resignation over Watergate.

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.

Haig told Ford that some of Nixon's staff suggested that Nixon could agree to resign in return for an agreement that Ford would pardon him.

According to Thomas J. Johnson, a professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a great president and that Watergate would be relegated to a " minor footnote.

The fact is Larry O ' Brien, elected Democratic Party Chairman, was also a lobbyist for Howard Hughes in a Democratic controlled Congress and the possibility of his finding out about Hughes ' illegal contributions to the Nixon campaign was too much of a danger for Nixon to ignore and O ' Brien's office at Watergate became a target of Nixon's intelligence in the political campaign.

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

James Neal who prosecuted the Watergate 7 did not believe Nixon had ordered the break in because of Nixon's surprised reaction when he was told about it.

" The Tribune < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > editors concluded that " nobody of sound mind can read < nowiki > transcripts </ nowiki > and continue to think that Mr. Nixon has upheld the standards and dignity of the Presidency ," and called for Nixon's resignation.

The Tribune call for Nixon to resign made news, reflecting not only the change in the type of conservatism practiced by the paper, but as a watershed event in terms of Nixon's hopes for survival in office.

For the presidential race that year, LeMay originally supported Richard Nixon ; he turned down two requests by George Wallace to join his American Independent Party that year on the grounds that a third-party candidacy might hurt Nixon's chances at the polls ( by coincidence, Wallace had served as a sergeant in a unit commanded by LeMay during World War II ).

Haig has been largely credited with keeping the government running while President Nixon was preoccupied with Watergate, and was seen as the " acting president " in Nixon's last months.

Author Roger Morris, a former colleague of Haig's on the National Security Council early in Nixon's first term, wrote that when Ford pardoned Nixon, he in effect pardoned Haig as well.

Some thought Nixon used it as part of the Southern strategy ; others claim it was Nixon's way of dismissing the obvious protests going on around the country, and Nixon's attempt to get other Americans not to listen to the protests.

Ultimately, on August 8, 1974, after the U. S. Supreme Court voted by 8 to 0 to reject Nixon's claims of executive privilege and release the tapes ( with then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist recusing himself because, as an assistant attorney general during Nixon's first term, he had taken part in internal executive-branch discussions of the scope of executive privilege ), Nixon announced his decision to resign as President.

The natural disaster earned national attention and a visit from President Richard Nixon who recruited Wyoming Seminary graduate Frank Carlucci, Nixon's head of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, as a point man to oversee flood recovery efforts.

Nixon's landslide victory in the electoral college during the U. S. presidential election, 1972 | 1972 Election.

The Fords escort the Nixons to a Marine One | waiting helicopter on Nixon's final day as president, August 9, 1974.

Emcee Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor of California is, `` Knight Must Fall ''!!

David, after whom Camp David is named, married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968.

* 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.

Also prominent is Dick's dislike of the Republican Party, satirizing Nixon's America as a Stalinist or neo-fascist police state.

Later, Nixon's Head falls for a " sweepstakes " letter by the same scammers, while Zoidberg is taken by an advance-fee fraud.

Nixon's conversation with Haldeman on August 1, 1972, is one of several that establishes this.

In the months leading up to Nixon's 1969 speech, his vice-president Spiro T. Agnew said on May 9, " It is time for America's silent majority to stand up for its rights, and let us remember the American majority includes every minority.

Mr. Nixon's problem is to interpret what the silent people think, and govern the country against the grain of what its more important thinkers think.

In 1972, the logo of Richard Nixon's reelection campaign posters were subvertised with two x's in Nixon's name ( as in the Exxon logo ) to suggest the corporate ownership of the Republican party, the spoof T-shirt ; but it is also the mass act of defiance of a street party.

Myers is sometimes cited as the youngest-ever White House Press Secretary, however Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon's press secretary, was 29 when he assumed the role in January 1969.

Although the phrase " Southern strategy " is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it, but merely popularized it.

Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post in 1972 about the involvement of United States President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.

Three consecutive pages show a fictionalized end to Richard Nixon's presidency which loosely parallels the end of Gary Tison's life: First Nixon is arrested for his connection to the Watergate scandal ; the next week's headline says he then escaped and is on the lam ; the third says he was gunned down in a shootout with cops ( but Spiro Agnew is still at large ).

The name Foggy Bottom often is used as a metonym for the United States Department of State because its headquarters is in the neighborhood, as are the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ; Friendship Lodge Odd Fellows Hall ; and the infamous Watergate complex, site of the Watergate burglaries which led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

During President Nixon's last days in the White House during the Watergate crisis, when the President's mental stability was doubted by some, Schlesinger is thought to have instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to check with him before carrying out any of Nixon's orders regarding nuclear weapons.