In the 1977 Frost / Nixon interviews, Richard Nixon defended America's destabilization of the Salvador Allende regime in Chile on domino theory grounds.

By suggesting that the “ rule of law ” and the “ principle of confidentiality ” were in conflict ( and claiming that right to confidentiality was the more central term ), Nixon defended his own actions by applying the ideograph of the “ principle of confidentiality ” to them ..

Nixon's yellow-satin inaugural gown by Harvey Berin was criticized as " a schoolteacher on her night out ", but Treyz defended her wardrobe selections by saying, " Mrs. Nixon must be ladylike.

Allen Dulles and Vice President Richard M. Nixon defended him, and the matter dropped.

Johnson has defended Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, finding his cover-up considerably less heinous than Bill Clinton's perjury, and Oliver North's involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair.

He defended Richard Nixon throughout the Watergate affair ; his close personal friendship with Gerald R. Ford ensured a good relationship with Nixon's successor.

His defection from the Democratic Party and his subsequent leadership of Citizens for Eisenhower-he vocally defended Eisenhower's running mate, California Senator Richard Nixon, against attacks by his mother-caused considerable family friction.

She had to hurdle a barbecue pit to touch Lady Bird Johnson, she accidentally knocked Pat Nixon down, and Nancy Reagan told her to get out of her face or she'd have her arrested.

Edgar Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and leader of the Pullman Union, and her friend Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail the next evening.

Nixon met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and did not believe her assertion that she would not invade Pakistan ; he did not trust her and once referred to her as an " old witch ".

U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her as the first female director of the U. S. Mint on May 3, 1933, where she served five full terms until her retirement in 1953, when Republicans under Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon regained the executive branch of government.

* Silent Coup, is a bestselling 1992 book written by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in which they contend that former Nixon White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Watergate burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters to protect his future wife, Maureen Biner, by removing information linking her to a call-girl ( prostitute ) ring that worked for the DNC.

Agnes Nixon initially produced her series One Life to Live and All My Children through her own production company, Creative Horizons, Inc., and kept a complete archive of monochrome kinescopes until ABC bought the shows from her in 1975.

When columnist Hedda Hopper sent her Richard Nixon placards and asked McDaniel to distribute them, McDaniel declined in a letter, saying that she had made a decision to stay out of politics.

Nixon intended that her arrest be a test case to allow Montgomery's black citizens to challenge segregation on the city's public buses.

Other performances have been: in What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ), as a woman who is having an affair with the title character ( played by Johnny Depp ); the role of Hannah Nixon in the Oliver Stone biopic, Nixon ( 1995 ); and in the Will Ferrell 2003 comedy Elf, as a woman who discovers that her husband is the father of one of Santa's elves.

Cynthia Ellen Nixon ( born April 9, 1966 ) is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City ( 1998 – 2004 ).

Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: " I don't really feel I've changed.

The immense popularity of the series led Nixon to enjoy her first leading role in a feature, playing a video artist who falls in love, despite her best efforts to avoid commitment, with a bisexual actor who just happens to be dating a gay man ( her best friend ) in Advice From a Caterpillar ( 2000 ), as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday telepic Papa's Angels ( 2000 ).

Nixon earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance.

Nixon accused Gahagan of being soft on Communism because of her opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Nixon went so far as to call her " pink right down to her underwear ".

Zinn's testimony as to the motivation for government secrecy was confirmed in 1989 by the actions of Erwin Griswold, who as U. S. solicitor general during the Nixon administration, prosecuted The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971.

This reinforced the idea that it was the Nixon Administration's responsibility to show sufficient evidence that the newspapers ’ actions would cause a “ grave and irreparable ” danger.

* 1973-Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires three Attorneys General over disposition of the secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor.

In a ceremony at the White House on May 14, 1970, President Richard Nixon presented the Medal of Honor to Fleming for his actions during the rescue.

Lasky analogizes the situation between John F. Kennedy's wiretapping of Martin Luther King, Jr. ( which lead to nothing ) and Richard Nixon's actions in Watergate ( which Nixon thought would also lead to nothing ).

On 15 January 1973, Nixon announced a suspension of offensive actions against North Vietnam.

US president Richard Nixon was enraged by the victory of Allende and by the failure of CIA covert actions.

" It succeeded, where Rolling Thunder had failed, he claimed, for three reasons: President Nixon was decisive in his actions and gave the military greater latitude in targeting ; American airpower was forcefully and appropriately used ; and the immense difference in the technology utilized made Linebacker the first bombing campaign in a " new era " of aerial warfare.

Nixon was called to appear before the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission concerning her actions as Chief Commissioner during the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009.

Mitchell immediately became a vocal member of the caucus with one of his first actions with the caucus, numbering 12 at the time, was to boycott President Richard M. Nixon ’ s State of the Union address in 1971 after Nixon had refused to meet the group.

On March 2, 1971, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard M. Nixon for his actions on July 11, 1969.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense.

* July 25 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense.

The magazine did continue the Nixon photo in February 2007, referring to a poll stating that George W. Bush had surpassed Nixon as the " worst president ever ".

A November 1, 1958 article in the Seattle Times was typical of the media's favorable coverage of the future First Lady, stating that " Mrs. Nixon is always reported to be gracious and friendly.

Disappointed, King sent another telegram to the President, stating that Eisenhower's comments were “ a profound disappointment to the millions of Americans of goodwill, north and south, who earnestly are looking to you for leadership and guidance in this period of inevitable social change .” He tried to set up a meeting with President Eisenhower, but was given a meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon, which lasted two hours.

Newsweek praised Smith's role by stating, " is such a good Nixon that his despair and sorrow at his predicament become simply overwhelming.

The presidential candidate finished by reading two telegrams, one from Nixon's mother assuring the general of her son's integrity, and the second from Summerfield stating that the RNC had voted unanimously to retain Nixon on the ticket.

As a result of this meeting and the fall of Quang Tri City, Nixon was prepared to up the ante, stating that " the bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

Nixon is heterosexual but marched to express her support for gay and lesbian causes, stating " What I'm doing is supporting decent and reasonable people who want to get on with their lives, and they have been treated appallingly previously by the Police, and I'm prepared to do something about it.