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48 unusual facts about Richard Nixon


1973 NFL season

Because all home games were blacked-out, politicians — including devout football fan President Richard Nixon — were not able to watch their home team win.

Amarillo Slim

In May 2003, Preston published his autobiography Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, where he wrote of playing poker with Larry Flynt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon among others.

American Cocker Spaniel

In 1952, an American Cocker Spaniel became a household name when United States Senator Richard Nixon made his Checkers speech on 23 September.

American Revolution Statuary

In accordance with Executive Order 11593, by President Richard Nixon, the National Park Service surveyed, and registered Statuary of people of the American Revolution, in Washington, D.C. to aid in their preservation.

Beijing Consensus

Stefan Halper, Director of American Studies at the Department of Politics, Cambridge and former foreign policy official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, offered his own interpretation of the term in his 2012 book, The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century.

Betty Harford

In this role, she was to Professor Kingsfield as H.R. Haldeman was to Richard Nixon.

Chandrakar /chandraker

He was the first to interview Richard Nixon following Nixon's election as President of mighty USA.

Charles Illingworth

This dinner and talk was attended by some 400 guests, including former US Vice-President Richard Nixon, former Governor of New Jersey and president of pharmaceutical company Warner-Lambert Alfred E. Driscoll, and Senator Joseph Lister Hill, with the wife of the latter recalling the event in her memoirs.

Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.

In accordance with Executive Order 11593 by President Richard Nixon the National Park Service survey, and registered Civil War statues in Washington, D.C. to aid in their preservation.

Clifford McIntire

McIntire served as director of the American Farm Bureau Federation and was a member of Richard Nixon’s Task Force on Rural Development between 1969 and 1970.

Congressional Budget Office

The Congressional Budget Office was created by Title II of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (P.L. 93-344), which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on July 12, 1974.

Denfeld High School

Public figures who've visited in the auditorium include Richard Nixon and Johnny Cash.

Eartha M. M. White

At a reception at the White House with President Nixon, she was asked how she would spend her cash award.

Edgar Fiedler

Edgar Russell Fiedler (died March 15, 2003) was an American economist who served as Vice President of The Conference Board and as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1971 - 1975) during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Edward J. Carlough

He was a strong critic of President Richard Nixon, and fought vigorously against wage-and-price controls.

Eileen Gunn

"Fellow Americans" (1991) posits an alternate history in which Barry Goldwater hired Roger Ailes to run his 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard Nixon became the host of a TV game show called Tricky Dick.

Executive Order 6102

This price remained in effect until August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, thus abandoning the gold standard for foreign exchange (see Nixon Shock).

Exit strategy

The term was used technically in internal Pentagon critiques of the Vietnam War (cf. President Richard Nixon's promise of Peace With Honor), but remained obscure to the general public until the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia when the U.S. military involvement in that U.N. peacekeeping operation cost the lives of U.S. troops without a clear objective.

Floyd McKissick

He endorsed Richard Nixon for president that year, and the federal government, under President Nixon, supported Soul City.

Friedman Paul Erhardt

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon, who often visited his daughter Julie Eisenhower in Pennsylvania, sometimes dined at another of Chef Tell's restaurants in Wayne.

Greg Garrison

He also directed one of television's landmark 1960 presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

Gurney's Inn

U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage.

Hellgate High School

On September 24, 1952, the morning after giving his Checkers speech, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon spoke at the school.

Jannik Hastrup

While the main characters hide from the soldiers, a brief scene depicts the negativism of racism in the United States with real images of racial attacks before and during the Civil Rights Movement, following by an anti-Richard Nixon image set on the Statue of Liberty.

Jimmy Lile

In addition to creating the Rambo knives, Lile designed and made several Bowie knives that he presented to Governor Bill Clinton and U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Other owners of his work included John Wayne, Peter Fonda, Fess Parker, Bo Derek, and Johnny Cash.

Judith Ford

She served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports for eight years, appointed by Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Michael Korda

He became Editor-in-Chief of the company and was a major figure in the book industry, publishing numerous works by high-profile writers and personalities such as William L. Shirer, Will and Ariel Durant, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

Mobile Quarantine Facility

The Apollo 11 crew also used this to speak with President Nixon who personally welcomed them back to Earth aboard the recovery ship after splashdown.

Monroe County, Missouri

Monroe County was one of only two jurisdictions in Missouri to be carried by Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election against incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon.

Nathaniel A. Owings

Owings and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then urban affairs adviser in President Richard Nixon's administration, were ultimately credited with the success of the master plan for the Washington Mall and for the redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue as the capital's grand ceremonial boulevard.

National Housing Conference

In 1973, Clara Fox, executive director of the Settlement Housing Fund, organized developers, lenders, builders, property managers, residents and others interested in affordable housing into a powerful coalition to fight President Richard Nixon’s actions to limit federal housing programs.

Patricia Hitt

Patricia Hitt was the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Richard Nixon.

Pete Dexter

Prior to that he worked for what is now The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Florida, but quit in 1972 because the paper's owners forced the editorial page editor to endorse Richard Nixon over George McGovern.

Peter Borsari

Spanning Presley to Nixon, he actively photographed people, places and events from 1965 to 1995.

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

In 1972, it was the only county in the state to vote for George McGovern over Richard Nixon.

Politics of Long Island

In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and came within 14,000 votes of winning heavily Democratic Brooklyn.

Saint Mary's Church, Hamilton Village

A former rector, The Rev. John Scott, was known for having performed an exorcism of the Philadelphia campaign headquarters of Richard Nixon, and was the founder of the Philadelphia Third Order Franciscans, a worldwide lay religious community.

Slow Flux

It's about how the hippie movement at this time had died, and president Richard Nixon is referred to as "the fool who believed that wrong is right".

Space Transportation System

In February 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed a Space Task Group headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew to recommend human space projects beyond Apollo.

Studebaker Canada

The decision to change talks in mid-stream was the result of a suggestion from a member of the head office's legal firm (reputedly Richard Nixon), who felt Toyota would be a better choice.

Tail gunner

On 18 December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II (also known as President Richard Nixon's, "Christmas Bombing"), USAF B-52 Stratofortresses of the Strategic Air Command conducted a maximum effort bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

The Missing White House Tapes

The single consisted of a doctored speech, in which Richard Nixon confesses culpability in the Watergate break-in.

Timothy J. Sullivan

In 1972, Spong was defeated by a well–funded Republican candidate after word leaked out that Spong supported the Democratic nominee and peace candidate, George McGovern, for president rather than the Republican candidate Richard Nixon.

Tsehai Publishers

The December 2012 issue of IJES contained recently declassified documents written by Henry Kissinger for then president Richard Nixon in anticipation of Ethiopian emperor Halie Selassie’s arrival in Washington DC on a diplomatic mission.

United States budget process

When newly elected President Richard Nixon began to refuse to spend funds that the Congress had allocated, Congress adopted a more formal means by which to challenge him.

VFA-37

On 29 Sep 1970, VA-37 participated in an air power demonstration for President Richard Nixon during his two day visit to Saratoga while she steamed in the Med.

William Konyha

Konyha was appointed to the Federal Apprentice Committee by President Richard Nixon.

Would You Buy A Used War From This Man?

The "This Man" in the title was Richard Nixon, who was the President of the United States from 1969–1974, and the "War" in the title was the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975.


Abraham Shemtov

He regularly leads Chabad-Lubavitch delegations to the White House and played a pivotal role in the relationships formed between Schneerson and U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Alexander Butterfield

H. R. Haldeman, the chief of staff to President-elect Richard Nixon, knew Butterfield from having studied with him at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Amerika Haus Berlin

Many prominent guests to the city made stops to this exhibition, including actor James Stewart (July 2, 1962), author John Steinbeck (December 13, 1963), and politicians Robert Kennedy (Spring 1962), Heinrich Lübke (February 3, 1963), and Richard Nixon (July 23, 1963).

Canada and the 1960 United States presidential election

While official Ottawa leaned towards supporting Richard Nixon, the Canadian public was much more favourable to John F. Kennedy.

Carl Olaf Bue Jr.

On August 11, 1970, Bue was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated by Joe McDonald Ingraham.

Chesterfield Smith

While serving as President of the American Bar Association he became an outspoken critic of the Richard Nixon and advocated for the congressional reappointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair, although Smith had earlier supported Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

Conservatives without Conscience

Conservatives Without Conscience is a book written by John Dean, who served as White House Counsel under U.S. President Richard Nixon and then helped to break the Watergate scandal with his testimony before the United States Senate.

Democrats for Nixon

Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election.

Donald Smaltz

In 1975, after moving into private practice, Smaltz grabbed headlines when he and another lawyer accused Watergate prosecutors of misconduct and persuaded a judge to dismiss two indictments against Richard Nixon's personal tax lawyer.

Dudley E. Faver

Following his retirement from the Air Force in 1973, Faver was appointed by president Richard Nixon to be the Regional Administrator for the new Office of Energy in Denver, Colorado.

Endangered Species Act

President Richard Nixon declared current species conservation efforts to be inadequate and called on the 93rd United States Congress to pass comprehensive endangered species legislation.

Esplanade Zagreb Hotel

Many world famous personalities have stayed there, including: Josephine Baker, Charles Lindberg, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, Alfred Hitchcock, Leonid Brezhnev, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Andrew Dickson, Louis Armstrong, Francis Ford Coppola, Queen Elizabeth II, Ella Fitzgerald, Richard Nixon, Pele, Catherine Deneuve, Tina Turner, Samantha Fox, Nelson Piquet, Woody Allen, Garry Kasparov, and Pierce Brosnan.

History of the United States National Security Council 1969–74

U.S. President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, dominated the making of US foreign policy during the Nixon Presidency.

International Controls Corporation

Vesco wanted Richard Nixon's Attorney General John N. Mitchell to intercede on his behalf with SEC chairman William J. Casey, and in April 1972 he sent his counsel, former New Jersey State Senator Harry L. Sears, along with ICC president Lawrence Richardson, to deliver a cash contribution of $200,000 to Maurice Stans, finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President.

John J. Daley

Daley was also a candidate for presidential elector during the 1972 presidential election (Vermont was carried by Republican incumbent President Richard Nixon).

Joseph F. Weis, Jr.

Two years later, on March 11, 1970, Weis was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania vacated by Joseph P. Willson.

Kuzma's mother

Viktor Sukhodrev (Виктор Суходрев), a personal interpreter of Khrushchev and later Alexei Kosygin, in his interview says that Khrushchev first used this expression in public when addressing Richard Nixon in 1959, who was attending the opening of the American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park exposition centre, Moscow.

Miami Marine Stadium

The venue, located just south of Downtown Miami, was revered for its scenic views of Downtown and Miami Beach, hosting motorboat events, and events featuring the likes of Mitch Miller, Sammy Davis, Jr., and U.S. President Richard Nixon (whose seasonal winter residence, dubbed "the Florida White House," was on nearby Key Biscayne).

Nixon Doctrine

The Nixon Doctrine implied the intentions of Richard Nixon shifting the direction on international policies in Asia, especially aiming for "Vietnamization of the Vietnam War."

North American DC-3

On 12 February 1969 Richard Nixon formed the Space Task Group under the direction of Vice President Spiro Agnew, giving them the task of selecting missions for a post-Apollo NASA.

Pizza Tycoon

The game also displays a playful sense of humor; from the graphics and cartoonish drawings, game messages, or animated faces of famous people (such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan or Lenin) that are put on interacting characters.

Saturn-Shuttle

But because of the need to keep costs down and to allow President Richard Nixon to approve the shuttle program in 1972, NASA decided to utilize segmented solid rocket boosters similar to those used on the Titan III rocket instead of the S-IC, thus ending the Saturn program after the initial Saturn V order was completed.

Sonia McMahon

Later that year, Sonia McMahon made world headlines after being photographed at the White House wearing a revealing dress in the company of her husband and United States president Richard Nixon.

Stephen Schneider

Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

The Fletcher Memorial Home

mentioning many world leaders by name (Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig, Menachem Begin, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Paisley, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon), suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-founded retirement home.

Ticasuk Brown

She was given a Presidential Commission by Richard Nixon.

United States elections, 1968

Republican former U.S. Senator and Vice-President Richard Nixon was elected to serve as the 37th President of the United States, defeating the Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey.

United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 1976

Other reasons, including his support for Richard Nixon and accusations that he had illegally obtained contributions from Gulf Oil were alleged to have contributed to the decision.

Walter King Stapleton

In 1970, Stapleton was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Richard Nixon.