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44 unusual facts about Richard Nixon


1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

Woody Hayes received a congratulatory phone call from President Richard Nixon after the game and then asked to speak to Fred Schram, who made the game-winning field goal.

After This

It is set during the mid-20th century, a time after the end of World War II, through to the presidency of Richard Nixon.

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 National Exhibition

Subsequently, Richard Nixon (then Vice President) and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on July 24, 1959 began what became known as the Kitchen Debate — a debate over the merits of capitalism vs. socialism, with Khrushchev saying Americans could not afford the luxury represented by the "Typical American House".

Back to the future timeline

Doc Brown is committed after being declared legally insane. Richard Nixon announces he will run for a fifth term in office.

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.

Beijing Wushu Team

As part of a world tour in 1974, Jet Li was reputed to have performed a two-man fight for US President Richard Nixon on the White House lawn.

Cecil R. Reynolds

Reynolds attended New Hanover High School, graduating in 1969, and turned down a Presidential appointment to the United States Naval Academy by Richard Nixon, after being drafted by the New York Mets.

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.

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.

Cocolobo Cay Club

Clients guided by the Joneses included then-senators John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Herman Talmadge and George Smathers through the 1940s and 1950s.

Denfeld High School

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

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.

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.

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.

Elena Sliepcevich

The Study’s findings were also the major reason for President Nixon’s creation of the President's Committee on Health Education in 1971.

Evelyn Cunningham

She also served on Nixon's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities.

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.

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.

Jack D. Maltester

In 1971 he sponsored a resolution at the annual USCM meeting in Philadelphia, entitled "Withdrawal from Vietnam and Reordering of National Priorities", which called upon President of the United States Richard Nixon "to do all within his power to bring about a complete withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam by December 31, 1971."

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.

Kjartan Slettemark

In the 1970s he worked on his "Nixon visions", travelling Europe with a photo of Nixon, equipped with Slettemark's hair and beard, in his passport.

Last Human

The Earth World President, John Milhous Nixon has learned that thermonuclear tests conducted too close to the surface of the sun have fatally weakened the star's structure, thus causing an eventual decay that will see the entire solar system die in four hundred thousand years - which will be very bad for the economy, and Nixon's re-election prospects.

Linda Melconian

In 1974, Melconian assisted then Majority Leader Tip O’Neill in his efforts to assure the integrity of the U.S. House of Representatives during the constitutional crisis of the historic Richard Nixon impeachment hearings.

Mitchell Rogovin

In private practice, he was known for his 1971 defense of New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan for his role in the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and for his 1973 suit against Richard Nixon's reelection committee on behalf of Common Cause.

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.

Norman Wexler

He was reported to have suffered from severe mental illness, reportedly bipolar disorder, and was arrested in 1972 for threatening to shoot 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.

Seventh Avenue, Newark, New Jersey

Congressman Peter Rodino, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during its impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon was a native of the First Ward as well.

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 presidential election, 1952

Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator Richard Nixon of California as Eisenhower's running mate; it was felt that Nixon's credentials as a fierce campaigner and anti-Communist would be valuable.

Vienna summit

In November 1960, Kennedy had defeated U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon in the presidential election of that year.

William Konyha

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


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).

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

The treaty was signed during the 1972 Moscow Summit on May 26 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.

Bébé's Kids

Elsewhere, in an abandoned building, Leon and Bébé's Kids are captured by robot versions of the Terminator, Abraham Lincoln, a bear, and Richard Nixon and are put on trial, in which the Terminator acts as the judge who decides whether the kids are worth sending to the electric chair, while Lincoln acts as the kids' lawyer, and Nixon as the prosecutor.

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.

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.

Dewey–Stassen debate

He then connected the Communist Party of the United States directly to Moscow, and used this to defend his support of the Nixon-Mundt Bill, introduced to the Senate by Senators Karl Earl Mundt of South Dakota and Richard Nixon of California, which he believed would effectively outlaw the Communist Party.

Disney's Contemporary Resort

On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his famous "I am not a crook" speech in a ballroom at the Contemporary in front of reporters from the Associated Press during the 'Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association'.

Edward J. Carlough

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

Elias P. Demetracopoulos

In 1968 Demetracopoulos uncovered illegal campaign donations of $549,000 given by the Greek military dictatorship to the Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew 1968 presidential campaign.

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.

Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973

Senate conferees offered a compromise, based on suggestions made by President Richard Nixon and Representative Donald H. Clausen (a Republican from California).

Five o'clock shadow

Richard Nixon is said to have lost the 1960 presidential election in part due to his five o'clock shadow during the televised United States presidential election debates with John F. Kennedy.

Ida Grove, Iowa

Mildred Lillie, California Court of Appeal Presiding Justice and Richard Nixon's choice for the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court (nomination withdrawn)

John R. Hanny

John R. Hanny is an United States chef, author, and political operative and is best known for working in the White House during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as a special consultant and for serving as a visiting chef for administrations from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.

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.

Legal liability of certified public accountants

Although these CPAs were convicted President Richard Nixon, according to a New York Times article by Floyd Morris, published in March 1, 2002, later pardoned them.

Marilyn Berger

Berger reported that Richard Nixon White House staffer Ken Clawson had bragged to her about authoring the Canuck Letter, a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader that played a large part in ending the campaign of Senator Edmund Muskie.

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).

Nathan Lewin

Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III, whom he represented while he was serving as Attorney General, President Richard Nixon, Jodie Foster, John Lennon, nursing home owner Bernard Bergman, Congressman George Hansen, Teamsters president Roy Williams, and Israeli war hero Aviem Sella.

On the Border

Barely audible at the end of the song, Glenn Frey can be heard whispering "Say Goodnight, Dick," a line made famous by Dan Rowan of Rowan and Martin but in this case referring to Richard Nixon's resignation.

Peter Borsari

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

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.

President's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation

The President's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation, also known as the Hunt Commission (and not to be confused with the Hunt Commission of 1980) was a United States Presidential Commission created by President Richard Nixon between April and June 1970 that was "responsible for recommending measures to improve operation of the nation's private financial system."

Robb Austin

Atwater introduced Austin to Reagan and included him in White House social functions and high level events, including the October 8, 1981, South Lawn departure ceremony of former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter who were leading the nation's delegation to the State funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

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.

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.

Space Task Group

For instance, President Richard Nixon appointed such a group in February 1969 to outline a post-Apollo spaceflight strategy, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

Stanley H. Klein

Among his most well-known designs was the single family, six room house shown at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, where Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev held their televised "Great Kitchen Debate." Designed to help the Soviet people get the feel of "an average American home," the house was similar to hundreds of homes he designed on Long Island and the New York metro area.

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.

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 Kelleher

His name is sourced under pictures of the great American president John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon.

Walter King Stapleton

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