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.

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 ).

Both before and during Pocket Money, Nixon and Kissinger had worried about the Soviet and Chinese reaction to the escalation.

You can't be objective about Nixon.

* 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

Two presidents were Quakers ( Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon ) and information about their religion is harder to come by.

Nixon conferred with Jo Ann Robinson, an Alabama State College professor and member of the Women's Political Council ( WPC ), about the Parks ' case.

In 1970, President Nixon sent a request to the Korean Foreign Ministry to provide information about the Unification Movement, and two years later he met with leaders of the movement.

* June 23 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C. I. A.

" Confessions of a Republican ", another Johnson ad, features a monologue from a man who tells us that he had previously voted for Eisenhower and Nixon, but now worries about the " men with strange ideas ", " weird groups " and " the head of the Ku Klux Klan " who were supporting Goldwater: he concludes that " either they're not Republicans, or I'm not ".

'" President Nixon approved the plan, and after he is given more information about the involvement of his campaign in the break-in, he tells Haldeman: " All right, fine, I understand it all.

According to news reports at the time, Nixon answered questions about the 18-1 / 2 minute tape gap, altering White House tape transcripts turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, using the Internal Revenue Service to harass political enemies, and a $ 100, 000 contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes.

Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian Stanley Kutler, who has written several books about Nixon and Watergate, sued for release of the transcripts of the testimony.

He noted that Nixon and other key figures likely to be mentioned were deceased and most of the surviving figures had testified under oath, written about or were interviewed about Watergate.

In late 1971, the President ’ s brother, Donald Nixon, was collecting intelligence for his brother at the time and was asking Meier about Larry O ' Brien.

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.

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.

Not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the Nixon Administration came to power ) 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.

President Richard Nixon did not publicly comment about the decision.

On July 5, 1971, during the amendment's signing ceremony in the East Room, President Richard Nixon talked about his confidence in the youth of America.

The unanimity Warren achieved helped speed the drive to desegregate public schools, which mostly came about under President Richard M. Nixon.

This article is about the history of the United States National Security Council during the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974.

Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1944 ), Pontius Pilate ( 1962 ) and his last film, the 1978 flop Born Again, about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.