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1959 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow
, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev
have a "kitchen debate."
1968 Dwight David Eisenhower II married Julie Nixon, the daughter of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon.
1969 Richard Nixon succeeds Lyndon Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
1969 Vietnam War
: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States
now expects its Asia
n allies to take care of their own military defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1969 U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japan
ese Premier Eisaku Sato
agree in Washington
to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
1970 President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette
television advertisements in the United States
, starting on January 1, 1971.
1970 Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe and visits Italy
, Yugoslavia
, Spain
, the United Kingdom
and Ireland
.
1970 The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
1970 Vietnam War
: In Paris
, a Communist
delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's October seven peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
1970 Vietnam War
: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States
will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodia
n government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol
by the Khmer Rouge
and North Vietnam
).
1971 Right to vote: The voting age in the United States
is reduced from 21 to 18 (provision of the 26th Amendment formally certified by President Richard Nixon on this day).
1971 President Richard Nixon announces that the United States
will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system.
1971 U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
1972 President of the United States
Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle
program.
1972 Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev
sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow
(including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; also other agreements were made).
1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam
.
1972 The Republican National Convention renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term.
1972 US
President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
1972 U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide (the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948 with only 55 percent of the electorate voting).
1973 Vietnam War
: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
.
1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.
1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam
.
1973 Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to mainland China, the United States
and the People's Republic of China
agree to establish liaison offices.
1973 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
begins several talks with U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1973 Watergate Scandal
: Former White House
aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate
Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
1973 The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President Richard Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox
. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork
, third in line at the Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1974 Citing executive privilege, U.S. President Richard Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1974 Watergate Scandal
: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House
tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974 Watergate scandal
: The "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972 is revealed, in which U.S. President Richard Nixon and H.R. Haldeman discuss using the CIA to block an FBI inquiry into Watergate. Nixon's support in Congress
collapses.
1974 Watergate scandal
: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9).
1974 Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States
to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment in response to his role in the Watergate scandal
. His Vice President, Gerald Ford
, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th President.
1974 Watergate Scandal
: U.S. President Gerald Ford
pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in offi
1984 Ronald Reagan
defeats Walter F. Mondale in the U.S. presidential election with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota
by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
1994 Former U.S. President Richard Nixon dies.
1994 Died
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