Privately, they also admitted that their hopes for Clint Anderson's three-fifths modification depended on none other than Republican Richard Nixon.

In the election he also brought with him a Republican majority in the House ( by eight votes ) and in the Senate ( actually a tie, with Nixon providing the majority vote ).

He drew the strip until 2011, when he stopped to concentrate on Dennis and Gnasher, though Trevor Metcalfe drew a few strips in 2003 and 2004, and there have also been some Robert Nixon reprints during 2005 and 2006.

The committee also investigated possible KCIA influence on the Unification Church's campaign in support of Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).

Richard Nixon is also the only non-sitting Vice President to be elected President, as well as the only person to be elected President and Vice President twice each.

Nixon was also the first Vice President to assume temporary control of the executive branch, which he did after Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on September 24, 1955, ileitis in June 1956, and a stroke in November 1957.

Nixon also expressed a wish to fix a time limit with Yahya for political accommodation in East Pakistan.

Harding's 60. 3 % of the popular vote was also the most since 1820, but has since been exceeded by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Richard Nixon in 1972.

** Watergate tapes, also known as the Nixon tapes, a collection of conversations between U. S. President Richard Nixon and various White House staff members

Thurmond also quieted conservative fears over rumors that Nixon planned to ask either Charles Percy or Mark Hatfield — liberal Republicans — to be his running mate.

Dewey also played a major role that year in convincing Eisenhower to keep Nixon as his running mate ; Eisenhower had considered dropping Nixon from the Republican ticket and picking someone he felt would be less partisan and controversial.

Heath also maintained a good relationship with US President Richard Nixon and figures in the Iraqi Ba ' ath Party.

Nixon administration officials were concerned because Hunt and Liddy were also involved in another secret operation, known as the White House plumbers, which was set up to stop security ' leaks ' and to investigate other sensitive security matters.

Nixon also said, " I can say categorically that ... no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident.

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.

He also appointed his own press spokesman, and his frequent press briefings and appearances on television interview shows made him a prominent public figure, although perhaps not nearly as much as Kissinger had been under Nixon.

Adapted by Agnes Nixon and directed by George Schaefer, starring Maurice Evans ( who also produced ) and Lilli Palmer.

" However, Nixon was also concerned that greater access to abortions would foster " permissiveness ," and said that " it breaks the family.

Kissinger also increasingly bypassed the Department of State to supervise personally sensitive negotiations in order to avoid what he and President Nixon agreed were likely bureaucratic disputes and inertia.

He also appointed his own press spokesman, and his frequent press briefings and appearances on television interview shows made him a prominent public figure although perhaps not nearly as much as Kissinger had been under Nixon.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

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.

* June Foray as Grandmother Fa ( singing voice provided by Marni Nixon )

Nixon and other Republicans provided little support for Carmichael to avoid alienating conservative Southern Democrats though the GOP did work to elect two House candidates who later became influential U. S. senators, Trent Lott and Thad Cochran.

Finally, application of the Nixon Doctrine provided military aid to Iran and Saudi Arabia so that these U. S. allies could ensure peace and stability in the region.

Khrushchev's boasts about Soviet missile forces provided John F. Kennedy with a key issue to use against Richard Nixon in the 1960 U. S. presidential election — the so − called ' Missile gap '.

The House Un-American Activities Committee, with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss, a top Roosevelt aide, of being a Communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by Whittaker Chambers.

He claimed his unit provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs prior to games in the 1971 World Series, and that he received the highest approval ratings during his service.

In January 2004, Congress passed legislation that provided for the establishment of a federally operated Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda.

There is no evidence that the U. S. instigated or provided material support to Pinochet's successful coup in 1973, but the Nixon administration was undoubtedly pleased with the outcome ; Nixon had spoken with disappointment about the failed coup earlier that year.

E. D. Nixon, a BSCP member and the most militant spokesperson for the rights of African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama for most of the 1940s and 1950s, exemplified the leadership that the union provided.

In return for troop commitments, South Korea received tens of billions of dollars in grants, loans, subsidies, technology transfers, and preferential markets, all provided by the Johnson and Nixon administrations.

The following year the band replaced Nixon with " Beltsy " Belthrower, of Melbourne hardcore band Mindsnare, although Nixon provided half of the electric guitars and an acoustic guitar track on the 2003 self-titled album.

In New York City's Branch 36, a storm of protest erupted when President Richard Nixon provided only a 4. 1 percent pay raise in 1969, far below what was needed.

In the book, often a standard text in university journalism courses, Crouse echoes Thompson's observations on the Pack Journalism mentality of the reporters covering the campaign, who were greatly dependent on the access provided by the Nixon campaign staff.

Although it is not provided for in the formal rules of the Senate, the nuclear option is the subject of a 1957 parliamentary opinion by Vice President Richard Nixon and was endorsed by the Senate in a series of votes in 1975, some of which were reconsidered shortly thereafter.

Command was so thrilled with the information provided by Nixon and Winters that it sent the first two tanks to reach Utah Beach to support the paratroopers.

Radical student protesters and Marxist groups were further inflamed by strong Anti-Americanism fueled by the Vietnam War and opposition to the conservative Nixon administration.

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.

Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.

Lott's strong showing in the polls landed him on the powerful House Judiciary Committee as a freshman, where he voted against all three articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon during the committee's debate.

" Nixon said Buchanan had " some strong views ," such as his " isolationist " foreign policy, with which he disagreed.

By the summer of 1971, Nixon was under strong public pressure to act decisively to reverse the economic tide.

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.

There was no greater proof that America lacked strong manpower than the economic mishaps of the 1960s that lead to the recession that Nixon inherited.

The opposition parties had also undergone leadership changes ; Nixon and Lewis, who had posed a strong challenge to Davis, resigned after the 1975 and 1977 elections, respectively.

The party's direction was seen by many as ambiguous in the 1967-71 parliament, although Nixon took a strong position in favour of extending funding for Catholic Separate schools to grade 13.

Weicker's tense relations with establishment Republicans may have roots in receiving strong support from President Nixon in his 1970 Senate bid, support repaid in the eyes of his critics by a vehement attack on the White House while serving on the Watergate Committee.

After a strong start, going 2-0 with a 1. 12 appearances, Martinez was lit up in interleague play and the Red Sox optioned him back to Pawtucket in June when outfielder Trot Nixon came off the disabled list.

Neal, a strong supporter of the Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter, polled almost the same raw vote as Mizell had four years earlier, when he was running on the Nixon -- Agnew slate.

Although Bois and Buchloh eventually placed more of their own protegés in influential academic positions than Krauss did, her influence remained strong, and she supervised the undergraduate studies of Maurice Berger and the graduate work of scholars including Rosalyn Deutsche, Brian Wallis, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Maud Lavin, Mignon Nixon, David Deitcher, Kathy O ' Dell, Ann Morris Reynolds, Alastair Wright, and George Baker, as well as the dissertations of Foster, Buchloh and Douglas Crimp, who were already established critics when they received their doctorates.

Worthy had a strong rookie campaign, but he broke his leg at the end of the season and could only watch helplessly as the Lakers, also hobbled by injuires in the post-season to Bob McAdoo and Norm Nixon, were swept by the powerful 76ers, led by regular season and Finals MVP Moses Malone, in the 1983 NBA Finals.

In early 1972, Nixon once more signaled his strong support for the bill as a Bicentennial measure.