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Then-Vice President Richard Nixon threw out the first baseball on the opening day of Candlestick Park on April 12, 1960, and the Oakland Raiders played the final three games of the 1960 season and their entire 1961 American Football League season at Candlestick.
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* 1974 – 10, 000 march in Washington, D. C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
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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.
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Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Washington 1957
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`` 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.
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An additional athletics-related honor came on October 11, 1975, when Simon threw out the first pitch of the 1975 World Series at Boston's Fenway Park on behalf of President Ford.
In September of that year, the Belgian Supreme Court threw out the cases against the former President Bush and other US officials, as well as Israelis.
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On 10 May 2005, while U. S. President George W. Bush was giving a speech in Tbilisi's Freedom Square, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live hand grenade at where Saakashvili and Bush were sitting.
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Every President of the United States from William Howard Taft to John F. Kennedy threw a ceremonial first pitch at least once at Griffith.
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Continuing the tradition, President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Nationals manager Manny Acta.
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When it became evident that Manuel Roxas, whom the Huks accused of having been a collaborator, would run for the presidency the Huks allied themselves with the Democratic Alliance, a new political party, and threw their support behind President Sergio Osmeña.
Butt accompanied President Taft when he threw out the first ball at the first home game of Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals in 1910 and 1911.
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