Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon Trivia
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In 1950, Nixon was elected to the US Senate representing California.
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Richard Nixon was the last former American president to die in the 20th century.
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He has a park named after him in Central Pennsylvania.
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Nixon died on V.I. Lenin's birthday.
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His favorite movie was Patton (1970).
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Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat Nixon, are buried alongside one another between the Rose Garden and his birth home at the Nixon Libary. Funerals for both were held on the Library grounds.
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Prior to his political career, Nixon owned a law firm in La Habra, California.
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Attended and graduated from Fullerton High School.
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He dedicated his Presidential Library, located in Yorba Linda, California, on July 9, 1990, with President George Bush and former Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan in attendance.
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Nixon graduated from Whittier College and Duke University Law School.
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Nixon served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was a lieutenant commander.
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On the day President John F. Kennedy was shot, Nixon was in Dallas, Texas.
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Was the thirty-seventh President of the United States.
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Nixon is the only President to resign from office in United States history. He resigned on August 8, 1974.
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Second Quaker ever to be elected President of the United States
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Nixon's favorite sport was football.
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He was the 36th Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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He parted his hair to the right to hide a large scar resulting from a childhood accident.
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Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states.
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Nixon suffered from motion sickness and hay fever.
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He was the first president to visitthe People's Republic of China while in office.
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Lost to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election.
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Richard Nixon: A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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Richard Nixon: A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
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Richard Nixon: A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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Richard Nixon: A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
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Richard Nixon: Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
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Richard Nixon: Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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Richard Nixon: Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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Richard Nixon: As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
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Richard Nixon: By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
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Richard Nixon: (stated in 1969) Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
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Richard Nixon: Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
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Richard Nixon: Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
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Richard Nixon: For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.
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Richard Nixon: Your by far the laziest staff I've seen in my whole life.
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Richard Nixon: When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
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Richard Nixon: If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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Richard Nixon: If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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Richard Nixon: You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentleman, this is my last press conference.
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Richard Nixon: I am not a crook.
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