Following Richard Nixon's resignation as President, Laird was reported to be the first choice of successor Gerald Ford to be nominated Vice President, a position ultimately filled by Nelson Rockefeller.

French to name the association to lead the boycott ( they selected the ' Montgomery Improvement Association ' (" MIA ")) to the city, and select King ( Nixon's choice ) to lead the boycott.

While he jousted with Nixon over racial policies and his Supreme Court nominations, including his choice of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., of South Carolina, Scott supported much of Nixon's domestic agenda, applauded the president's conduct of foreign affairs, backed his Vietnam policy, praised his invasion of Cambodia, publicly proclaimed Nixon's innocence during the Watergate scandal, and endorsed President Gerald Ford's pardon of his predecessor.

During the 1968 presidential election, Finch was Nixon's first choice as his Vice Presidential running mate, but Finch declined and Nixon then chose Governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew.

Following Nixon's election, Finch was given his choice in the new Cabinet, and he selected Secretary of HEW because of his long interest in health and education issues.

When teammate Gabe Kapler ( who often acted as Nixon's right field replacement ) hit a long fly ball off of the Green Monster, the umpires ruled it a double.

Both are referenced in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed attempt by organized crime to suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.

When DDB, then considered a firm handling predominantly Democratic candidates during political campaigns, produced the 1964 television commercial Daisy in support of Lyndon Johnson's Presidential campaign, Dane was added to Nixon's Enemies List with the remark:

Though Bork claims to believe Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being " perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job.

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.

During his tenure as Defense Secretary, Laird did not share President Nixon's lingering timetable for withdrawal from Vietnam.

After Nixon released the infamous " smoking gun " transcripts ( which proved Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up ), however, Lott announced that he would vote to impeach Nixon when the articles came up for debate before the full House ( as did the other Republicans who voted against impeachment in committee ).

When many Democrats left the White House following Richard Nixon's replacement of Johnson, Dole did not.

The band did recognize some limits, however, and although they regularly discussed a " Death and Medicine " show, including formations and song arrangements relating to Jayne Mansfield's death-" Saturday Night and I Ain't Got No Body "-and other current events, including Richard Nixon's phlebitis, they never did-and never intended to-in fact stage this halftime show.

Though Bork claims that he believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being " perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job.

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

Another historian wrote: " Nixon never had a plan to end the war, but he did have a general strategy -- to increase pressure on the communists issue them a November 1, 1969 deadline to be conciliatory or else ... The North Vietnamese did not respond to Nixon's ultimatum ... and his aides began planning Operation Duck Hook.

However, Nixon's victory did not help his allies in the Senate, and the Democrats increased their majority by two seats.

From 1848 until Richard M. Nixon's victory in 1972, Texas voted for the Democratic candidate for president in every election except 1928, 1952, and 1956 ( it did not vote in 1864 and 1868 due to the Civil War and Reconstruction ).

Phillips was the architect of President Richard M. Nixon's Southern strategy, which worked brilliantly until Nixon did himself in.

Gabrielson would also be one of the few Republican politicians not to offer him support after Nixon, by then the Republican Vice-presidential candidate, placed his fate in the hands of the RNC in the Checkers speech, saying that Nixon's speech ( which he had not heard ) did not " make sense " because it would take ten days to assemble the RNC.

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Joe Muldoon walk on the moon, and Nixon's " most historic phone call " is joined by a call from former President Kennedy, committing the United States to send a manned mission to Mars, which Nixon backs as part of his fateful decision to decide the future of manned spaceflight, instead of deciding on the Space Shuttle program as he did in our timeline.

When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, Eisenhower joked, " If you give me a week, I might think of one.

In the end, Nixon's wishes prevailed, with Agnew receiving 1119 out of the 1317 votes cast.

In the end, Nixon's emphasis on his experience carried little weight, and he wasted energy by campaigning in all 50 states instead of concentrating on the swing states.

In the 1970s, Hollings joined with fellow senators Kennedy and Henry M. Jackson in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

Real life footage of Nixon's state funeral in Yorba Linda, California, plays out over the extended end credits, and all living ex-presidents at the time, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and then-president Bill Clinton, are shown in attendance.

The film began shooting on May 1, 1995 but there was a week of pre-shooting at the end of April to film scenes that would be used as part of a mock documentary about Nixon's career.

Draper also claimed that he and a friend once placed a direct call to the White House during the Nixon administration, and after giving the operator President Nixon's secret code name of " Olympus ", and asking to speak to the president about a national emergency, they were connected with someone who sounded like Richard Nixon ; Draper's friend told the man about a toilet paper shortage in Los Angeles, at which point the person on the other end of the line angrily asked them how they'd managed to get connected to him.

In the 1970s, Jackson joined with fellow senators Ernest Hollings and Edward Kennedy in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

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 ).

Nevertheless, Nixon's critics have continued to accuse him of campaigning on a " secret plan " to end the war.

According to one historian, " it became obvious in 1969 that Nixon's ' secret plan ' to end the war was a campaign gimmick ..."

Rose Mary Woods ( December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005 ) was Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951, through the end of his political career.

Woods was President Nixon's personal secretary, the same position she held from the time he hired her until the end of his lengthy political career.

After leaving Northern Ireland in 1972, Winchester was briefly assigned to Calcutta before becoming The Guardians American correspondent in Washington, D. C., where Winchester covered news ranging from the end of Richard Nixon's administration to the start of Jimmy Carter's presidency.

It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1975, during the end of Richard Nixon's presidency, and the beginning of Gerald Ford's.

Following the end of the war in the European theater, Winters worked for his close wartime friend Captain Lewis Nixon at Nixon's family business, Nixon Nitration Works of Edison, New Jersey, rising to become general manager in 1950.

Kissinger noted that she " listened to what was in fact one of Nixon's better presentations with aloof indifference " but " took up none of the points.

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.

" After giving the speech, Nixon's approval ratings which had been hovering around 50 % shot up to 81 % in the nation and 86 % in the South.

Also in the book, Haldeman explained Nixon's statement in the Watergate tapes that Watergate could " open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing ".

He served as a senior staff member of President Nixon's National Security Council in 1968 and served various Republican administrations up to and including that of President Reagan.

" Novak's partner Rowland Evans ended up on Richard Nixon's " master list " of enemies, although Novak himself was not mentioned.

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.

Stone contributed up to $ 10 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972 ; these were cited in Congressional debates after Watergate to institute campaign spending limits.

Nixon's successor Stuart Lyon Smith proved unable to increase Liberal support, while new NDP leader Michael Cassidy lacked the support of the party establishment and could not measure up to Lewis's charismatic and dynamic figure.

The State Banquet Hall with an area of 7, 000 square meters can entertain 7, 000 guests, and up to 5, 000 people can dine at one time ( as was done on the occasion of Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972 ).

Manson notoriously interrupted Kasabian's testimony by holding up a copy of the Los Angeles Times newspaper to the jury with the headline " Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares " referring to President Richard Nixon's statements to the press about the pre-verdict trial.

A supporter of President Nixon's law-and-order philosophies, Nunn called out the National Guard to break up violent protests in the state.

It is named for the late Congressman John M. Ashbrook, an Ohio Republican best known for having run a largely symbolic campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 1972, against the incumbent Richard Nixon, to protest what some saw as Nixon's failure to live up to conservative principles such as constitutionally limited government, reducing federal spending, and uncompromising anti-communism.

Nixon's narrow victory yielded only limited gains for his Republican Party, which picked up a net of five seats from the Democratic Party.

Growing up in the West Home in the same rural Yorba Linda region as Nixon, West attended a Sunday-school class taught by Nixon's father, Frank, whom she described as " a fiery persuasive teacher.

The festival, arranged by the People's Army Jamboree ( an ad hoc group ) and Oregon governor Tom McCall, was set up when the FBI told the governor that President Nixon's planned appearance at an American Legion convention in Portland could lead to violence worse than that seen at 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Anticipating Israeli requests, Henry Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State and President Richard Nixon's National Security Adviser, made arrangements for El Al to pick up some items, including ammunition, " high technology products " and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles at a US naval base in Virginia on October 7, and was later presented with a list of priority arms ; a modest effort soon began, but Kissinger still hoped to keep any visible involvement at a minimum.