Since 1971, when the Nixon administration decided to abolish fixed exchange rates, America's Current Account accumulated trade deficits have totaled $ 7. 75 Trillion as of 2010.

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.

As a result, the Richard Nixon administration organized and inserted secret operatives in Chile, in order to quickly destabilize Allende's government.

The film generated a lot of speculation and interest when news leaked that the film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal.

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.

During the Nixon administration he headed the committee to research a conversion to paid / volunteer armed force.

The Nixon administration found itself unable to react at all, since the US was heavily committed in Vietnam and had no troops to spare if the situation in Korea escalated.

During the Nixon administration ( 1969 – 74 ), First Lady Pat Nixon refurbished the Green Room, Blue Room, and Red Room, working with Clement Conger, the curator appointed by President Richard Nixon.

With the Soviet Union already covertly engaged in neighboring Afghanistan, the Nixon administration used Pakistan to try to deter further Soviet encroachment in the region.

The now defunct investment bank of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette had numerous talented people working there including people such as William Donaldson who served in the Nixon administration, as well as Ken Moelis, Bennett Goodman, Herald " Hal " Ritch, Joel Cohen, Safra A. Catz who became president of Oracle Corporation, Tom Dean, Larry Schloss, Michael Connelly, and others.

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He broke with the administration on Vietnam, was not always a faithful supporter of the Republican agenda, and was a very controversial critic of Richard Nixon during Watergate.

The Bureau of the Budget was moved to the EOP in 1939, and reorganized into OMB in 1970 during the Nixon administration.

Thanks to his close relationship with the Nixon administration, Thurmond found himself in a position to deliver a great deal of federal money, appointments and projects to his state.

The Nixon administration began exerting economic pressure on Chile via multilateral organizations, and continued to back Allende's opponents in the Chilean Congress.

The Nixon administration secretly agreed with some railroads that Amtrak would be shut down after two years.

Wilson made periodic attempts to mitigate inflation through wage-price controls, better known in the UK as " prices and incomes policy " ( as with indicative planning, such controls — though now generally out of favour – were widely adopted at that time by governments of different ideological complexions, including the Nixon administration in the United States ).

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.

The distrust between the press and the Nixon administration was mutual and greater than usual due to lingering dissatisfaction with events from the Vietnam War.

Nixon and top administration officials discussed using government agencies to " get " what they perceived as hostile media organizations.

The Nixon administration struggled to decide what materials to release.

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

After US President Richard Nixon made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place between the two countries.

Ten years later, after Euan Kerr took over as Beano editor, Nixon returned, drawing in a noticeably different style than before.

Nixon continued drawing it until his death in October 2002, though due to the strips being drawn months in advance, his strips continued appearing in the Beano until the end of January 2003 when artist Barrie Appleby took over.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

In 1974, Moon took full-page ads in major newspapers defending President Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate controversy.

Not until Richard Nixon took office in 1969 was there another opportunity.

When Richard Nixon took office in 1969, he altered the formula to state that the United States should be able to fight one-and-a-half wars simultaneously.

Haldeman took this suggestion and started keeping and maintaining a daily diary throughout his entire career in the Nixon White House ( January 18, 1969, to April 30, 1973 ).

In 1978, he co-authored The Ends of Power with Joseph Di Mona, in which he took responsibility for fostering the atmosphere in which Watergate flourished, a stark contrast from Ehrlichman, who never forgave Nixon for not pardoning him.

Presidents have invited other world leaders to travel with them on Air Force One at times, including Nixon inviting Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to travel with him to California from Washington, D. C. in June 1973, and George W. Bush traveled with Mexican President Vicente Fox to Toledo, Ohio on 6 September 2001 In March 2012, President Obama took the British Prime Minister David Cameron to a basketball game in Ohio aboard Air Force One.

In 1967, he had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show's guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick.

When Nixon took the Oval Office in 1969, Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon and vice president Spiro Agnew.

Some critics took Stone to task for portraying Nixon as an alcoholic, though Stone says that was based on information from books by Stephen Ambrose, Fawn Brodie, and Tom Wicker.

Democrats Kennedy and Johnson still relied on their Appointments Secretaries instead and it was not until the Nixon administration that the Chief of Staff took over maintenance of the President's schedule.

With relations between the Soviet Union and China at a nadir — border clashes between the two took place during Nixon's first year in office — Nixon sent private word to the Chinese that he desired closer relations.

Nixon's change, from virulent anti-communist to the American leader who took the first step in improving Sino-American relations, led to a new political adage, " Only Nixon could go to China.

The antiwar left now made him their primary enemy and the Democrats ran Massachusetts Senator George McGovern for president, but Nixon effectively took away any major issue he could run on by having ended the draft, began pulling out of Vietnam, and restored ties with China.

The grand jury returned indictments only after President Richard Nixon took office and John Mitchell assumed the office of Attorney General.

Humphrey and Muskie received 42. 72 percent of the popular vote and carried 13 states and 191 electoral votes ; Nixon and Agnew won 43. 42 percent of the popular vote and carried 32 states and 301 electoral votes, while the third party ticket of George Wallace and Curtis LeMay, running as candidates of the American Independent Party, took 13. 53 percent of the popular vote and took five states in the Deep South and their 46 votes in the electoral college.

" Because Nixon had asserted only a generalized need for confidentiality, the Court held that the larger public interest in obtaining the truth in the context of a criminal prosecution took precedence.

After Baxendale left The Beano in 1962, Robert Nixon drew a few strips before Ron Spencer took over that same year.

When they had started the column, Novak paid a ' courtesy call ' to Nixon, who took the opportunity to admonish them to give Republicans a break.

In collaboration with his partner George S. Nixon ( who was to become a US Senator in 1904 ), Wingfield started in Belmont, Nevada in 1901 and then saw the potential of Goldfield after mining at Tonopah, only a few miles north, took off.