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President Richard Nixon orders U. S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nationwide riots and leading to the Kent State Shootings.
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`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.
Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.
* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.
* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.
That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U. S. President Richard Nixon.
* 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.
* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
* 1974 – 10, 000 march in Washington, D. C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
* 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
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.
In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.
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.
* Richard A. Posner An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-674-00080-3
The U. S. maintained a stated national policy of never using biological warfare under any circumstances since an Executive Decision in November 1969, by President Richard Nixon.
These programs continued until 1969, when by executive order President Richard Nixon shut down all programs related to American offensive use of biological weapons.
US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.
On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.
If the corporate President is not the COO ( such as Richard Parsons of Time Warner from 1995 – 2001 ), then many division heads report directly to the CEO themselves, with the President taking on special assignments from the CEO.
* Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997 ; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President
He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, Richard Nixon.
Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Washington 1957
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Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.
`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.
Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.
* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).
Mao Zedong meets with President Nixon, February 29, 1972
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they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.
* 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
* 1933 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 " forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates " by U. S. citizens.
That same year, a lighthouse was erected under the orders of President Porfirio Díaz.
The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U. S. government, from orders of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II.
* 1994 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
On January 22, 2009, President Obama signed executive orders directing the CIA to shut what remains of its network of " secret " prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo detention camp within a year.
On January 22, 2009, three executive orders were issued by President Obama, although only one of these orders explicitly deals with policy directed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which directs the camp's closure within one year.
On 28 June 2009, in the context of a constitutional crisis, the military, acting on orders of the Supreme Court of Justice, arrested the president, Manuel Zelaya after which they forcibly removed elected President Zelaya from Honduras.
* 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
* 1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
* 1932 – U. S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the " Bonus Army " of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D. C.
26 March 1991 is the day that marks the clash between military soldiers and peaceful demonstrating students which climaxed in the massacre of dozens under the orders of then President Moussa Traoré.
* 1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
* 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune ; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
* 1939 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
On 5 May 2003 Bockarie was killed in Liberia, allegedly on orders from President Charles Taylor, who feared Bockarie ’ s testimony before the Special Court.
After two issued orders for the sales to stop, President Harding finally summoned Forbes to the White House and demanded Forbes ' resignation, since Forbes had been insubordinate in stopping the shipments.
** U. S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U. S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
* November 4 – WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.
** WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
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