In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.

Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

In 1973, there was internal conflict over whether to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

This upset the United States greatly and contributed to there view that of Prince Sihanouk as a North Vietnamese sympathizer and a thorn on the United States. However, declassified documents indicate that, as late as March 1970, the Nixon administration was hoping to garner " friendly relations " with Sihanouk.

* Richard Nixon was a frequent visitor and did much to add to and modernize the facilities.

Also, some Maoist groupings attack even some of the shifts and changes that occurred while Mao was still alive and in leadership, like his 1972 welcoming of Richard Nixon ( see lesser evil for more on this event ).

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

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.

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.

The medal was created on July 9, 1970 by President Richard Nixon in.

Richard Nixon himself initially vetoed the Clean Water Act, citing its projected costs, though he was ultimately overridden by Congress.

Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).

While it is now easy to say that Nixon in Chinas influential score spawned a new interest in opera, it was not always met with such laudatory and generous review.

The Independent later stated that " Lindsay came across as all style and no substance, a ' limousine liberal ' who knew nothing of the concerns of the same ' Silent Majority ' that was carrying Richard Nixon to the White House at the very same time.

The project was funded by the Griffis foundation ( named for Nixon Griffis, then a director of the aquarium ).

Mr. Nixon, for his part, would oppose intervention in Cuba without specific provocation.

* 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.

After the 1962 mid-term elections, Smith presented a documentary entitled, " The Political Obituary of Richard Nixon " as part of his Howard K. Smith: News and Comment ( 1962 – 1963 ) television series.

On October 10, the FBI reported the Watergate break-in was only part of a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage on behalf of the Nixon re-election committee.

Nixon was succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pardon of Nixon, immunizing him from prosecution for any crimes he had " committed or may have committed or taken part in " as president.

He said that the Nixon family's situation " is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

both as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education for part of the Nixon Administration and later for the Clinton Administration as the first Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs for the U. S. State Department.

In private conversation later revealed as part of the Nixon tapes, Nixon said " There are times when an abortion is necessary, I know that.

After retiring from the Senate, Mansfield served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988, and upon retiring as ambassador, was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1989 ), in part for his role in the impeachment of Republican President Richard Nixon Mansfield is the longest serving American ambassador to Japan in history.

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.

In 1913, Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, the chamber of commerce was set up, a library opened as part of the school, and avocado trees were first planted.

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.

Most Americans began demanding a solution to the problem, and President Richard Nixon began lobbying for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline as at least a part of the answer.

Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) investigators revealed that the Canuck Letter was a forged document as part of the dirty-tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by the Nixon campaign.

Upon her return home, White House staffer Charles Colson sent a memo to the President reading in part, " Mrs. Nixon has now broken through where we have failed ... People — men and women — identify with her, and in return with you.

It was a part of a sweeping reduction in price and entry controls in United States transportation begun with initiatives in the Nixon Administration, carried out through the Ford and Carter Administrations, and followed up on in the Reagan Administration.

And not on the part of our noble President who, like Richard Nixon, saw what was going on and shrugged, and ignored his responsibility.

The buildings were demolished in 1970 due in part to lobbying by President Richard Nixon, who had served in the offices as a navy officer.

In the 1977 interviews, watched by 45 million people, Nixon admitted his part in the scandal which had led to his resignation two years earlier.

Nixon took part in post-election negotiations with the third-place NDP, and helped bring about a two-year accord between the two parties, in which the NDP gave support to the Liberals in return for progressive legislation in certain fields.

The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace was not originally part of the presidential library system.