Richard Nixon (1913–1994)
Author of RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
About the Author
Born in California in 1913, Richard Milhouse Nixon had an excellent record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning to practice law. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. After he left the service, Nixon was elected to Congress show more and in 1950, won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. They won, and Nixon learned much in the Vice Presidency. In 1960 he was nominated for President, but lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace for the Presidency. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first landing on the moon. In 1972, his administration was in turmoil as the Watergate Scandal was discovered and linked to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. As a result, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973 and Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as his new Vice President. Nixon himself felt it also prudent to resign rather than face impeachment, and so on August 8, 1974, he announced that he would resign the next day. At the time of Nixon's death, he had written several books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy. Richard M. Nixon died on April 22, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Official U.S. Presidential Portrait (National Archives & Recores)
Works by Richard Nixon
Leaders: Profiles and Reminiscences of Men Who Have Shaped the Modern World (1982) 244 copies, 2 reviews
Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents (The James Madison Library in American Politics) (2008) 25 copies
Submission of recorded Presidential conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives (1974) 20 copies
The challenges we face, edited and compiled from the speeches and papers of Richard M. Nixon (1960) 11 copies
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974 (1972) 7 copies, 1 review
Frost v Nixon 5 copies
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, Volume III: 1971 (1972) 4 copies
Frost Nixon--The Complete Interviews: Special Limited Edition--2 disc Collectors set [DVD] [1977] [UK Import] (2009) 3 copies
The quotable Richard M. Nixon 2 copies
The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon: Presidential Campaign of 1960 (1961) 2 copies
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, Volume IV: 1972 (1977) 2 copies
Our Nixon 2 copies
Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words 2 copies
Richard Nixon, 1977 1 copy
The four academic freedoms 1 copy
The CHALLENGES WE FACE. Compiled and Edited from the Speeches and Papers of Richard M. Nixon. (1960) 1 copy
The Nixon Answer 1 copy
A verdadeira guerra 1 copy
Four great Americans 1 copy
No More Vietnams 1 copy
𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗶𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟭 1 copy
NIXON SPEAKS OUT : MAJOR SPEECHES & STATEMENTS BY RICHARD M. NIXON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1968 (1968) 1 copy
The clearest choice 1 copy
Associated Works
Our Country's Presidents: All You Need to Know About the Presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama (2001) — Introduction, some editions — 603 copies, 6 reviews
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contributor — 457 copies, 5 reviews
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Contributor — 126 copies, 1 review
Dere Mr. President;: The hilarious letters kids write to the President (1972) — Foreword — 16 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Nixon, Richard
- Legal name
- Nixon, Richard Milhous
- Birthdate
- 1913-01-09
- Date of death
- 1994-04-22
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Whittier College (BA)
Duke University Law School - Occupations
- lawyer
politician
naval officer
President of the United States - Organizations
- U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
U.S. Navy - Awards and honors
- Time Magazine, Man of the Year (1971)
Time Magazine, Man of the Year (1972) - Relationships
- Nixon, Pat (wife)
- Short biography
- Only president of the United States ever to resign from the presidency
- Cause of death
- cerebral edema
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Yorba Linda, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Yorba Linda, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
Saddle River, New Jersey, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA - Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Burial location
- Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Discussions
37 - Richard M Nixon in US Presidents Challenge (USPC) (February 2021)
Stone...Cold....Stupid in Pro and Con (January 2019)
random events of habit so empire? Nixon anticipates Reagan. in Pro and Con (January 2017)
(Presidential) Proclamation 4311 may come back to haunt us in Pro and Con (October 2016)
Reviews
I have always intensely dislike Richard Nixon, both as a person and as a President. I read the book hoping to come to a more nuanced view; instead I came to feel he was even more profoundly depraved.
Still, I was one of the few in my senior year of high school class to support his pardon. I did not feel then that "piling on" was in the American tradition.
Still, I was one of the few in my senior year of high school class to support his pardon. I did not feel then that "piling on" was in the American tradition.
Profiles of numerous world leaders after World War II. Nixon new almost every major world leader personally, except for Stalin. There are great insights into the personalities of the leaders that go beyond their public persona. Nixon spares no one. The leaders are presented with all their good qualities and all their faults.
I had to put it aside after reading more than half of it. It was too hard to find any info on the leaders in between all the pro-American and anti-communism blah blah. Boring!
I have always intensely dislike Richard Nixon, both as a person and as a President. I read the book hoping to come to a more nuanced view; instead I came to feel he was even more profoundly depraved.
Still, I was one of the few in my senior year of high school class to support his pardon. I did not feel then that "piling on" was in the American tradition.
Still, I was one of the few in my senior year of high school class to support his pardon. I did not feel then that "piling on" was in the American tradition.
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