* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

** U. S. President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to the U. S. Supreme Court.

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 Supreme Court returned to emphasizing the narrowness and rationality of bills of attainder in Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U. S. 425 ( 1977 ).

The Supreme Court upheld the law in Nixon, arguing that specificity alone did not invalidate the act because President constituted a " class of one.

In his 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon campaigned against the Warren Court, pledging to appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court.

Nixon was soon faced with two more Supreme Court vacancies when John Harlan and Hugo Black retired.

United States v. Nixon,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision.

The Supreme Court confirmed the legitimacy of this doctrine in United States v. Nixon, but only to the extent of confirming that there is a qualified privilege.

The Supreme Court addressed ' executive privilege ' in United States v. Nixon, the 1974 case involving the demand by Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox that President Richard Nixon produce the audiotapes of conversations he and his colleagues had in the Oval Office of the White House in connection with criminal charges being brought against members of the Nixon Administration.

The headquarters ' new home in Mons, Belgium, was the center of international attention from time to time as new Supreme Allied Commanders came and went, with one of the more notable being General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Haig, who had retired from military service in order to serve as White House Chief of Staff for President Richard Nixon during the depths of the Watergate crisis, was abruptly installed as SACEUR after Watergate's denouement.

However, during the Nixon administration Fulbright voted for a civil rights bill and led the charge against confirming Nixon's conservative Supreme Court nominees Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell.

He voted against Nixon ’ s Supreme Court nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, “ two of Nixon ’ s most embarrassing defeats ,” as well as Nixon ’ s proposals for the B-1 bomber, submarines capable of carrying the Trident missile and the supersonic transport ( SST ).

In 1969, President Nixon asked him to join the Supreme Court, but Powell turned him down.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon asked Baker to fill one of two empty seats on the U. S. Supreme Court.

Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Redefined the Supreme Court.

With the prospect of a return to the Supreme Court closed to him by the election of Richard Nixon, Goldberg contemplated a run for elected office.

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

On July 24, 1974, in United States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice William Rehnquist, ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were void.

Warren remained on the Court, and Nixon was elected.

After Richard M. Nixon was elected President, he appointed Annenberg as ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the United Kingdom.

The Court also found it significant that Nixon was compensated for the loss of his papers, which alleviated the punishment.

When Burger was nominated for the Chief Justiceship, conservatives in the Nixon Administration expected that the Burger Court would rule markedly differently from the Warren Court and might, in fact, overturn controversial Warren Court era precedents.

In United States v. U. S. District Court ( 1972 ) the Burger Court issued another unanimous ruling against the Nixon Administration's desire to invalidate the need for a search warrant and the requirements of the Fourth Amendment in cases of domestic surveillance.

Burger, Blackmun and Powell were appointed to the Court by Nixon during his first term.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.

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

* Richard Nixon from Futurama

Two controversies arose during the campaign which tested him and his staff but were without effect on the campaign ; one involved a report that Nixon had improperly received funds from a secret trust – Nixon spoke out adroitly to avoid potential damage but the matter permanently alienated the two candidates.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

* Helen Douglas, Actress and Congresswomen from California defeated by Richard Nixon.

* 1971 – Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

Since Appleby stopped drawing Roger, the comic has run reprints of Robert Nixon strips from the 1980s.

Comparing the recovery from the 1981 – 82 recession ( 1983 – 1990 ) with the years between 1971 ( end of a recession ) and 1980 shows that the rate of growth of real GDP per capita averaged 2. 77 under Reagan and 2. 50 % under Nixon, Ford and Carter.

After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on NBC's Saturday Nights comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: " General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States.

In the same month of December 1971, when Richard Nixon sent a carrier battle group led by the into the Bay of Bengal in an attempt to intimidate India, the Soviet Union responded by sending a submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to trail the US task force.

Soon after the Dolphins ' win in the AFC Championship Game, Shula received a phone call at his home from President Richard M. Nixon at 1: 30 in the morning.