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    Richard Nixon

    President of the United States from 1969 to 1974

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  1. 1 day ago · September 8, 1974 – Ford pardons Nixon. January 1, 1975 – Former Attorney General John Mitchell, former aide Ehrlichman and former Chief of Staff Haldeman are found guilty of obstruction of ...

  2. 1 day ago · The 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon defeated Democratic U.S. senator George McGovern in a landslide victory. With 60.7% of the popular vote, Richard Nixon won the largest share of the popular vote for the ...

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  3. 3 days ago · The front-runner for the Republican nomination was former Vice President Richard Nixon, who formally began campaigning in January 1968. Nixon had worked behind the scenes and was instrumental in Republican gains in Congress and governorships in the 1966 midterm elections.

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  5. 5 days ago · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), agency of the U.S. government that sets and enforces national pollution-control standards. In 1970, in response to the welter of confusing, often ineffective environmental protection laws enacted by states and communities, Pres. Richard Nixon created the EPA.

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  6. 1 day ago · Fifty-six years ago in August 1968, Richard Nixon achieved what The New York Times called “the greatest reversal of fortune in American political history.” Times columnist James Reston went ...

  7. 1 day ago · As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of ...

  8. 3 days ago · Nixon's appeal to the majority in favor of the war. In a televised address on November 3, 1969, President Richard Nixon famously referred to a group that he believed represented the true feelings of the American people - the "silent majority." This term was used to describe those who supported his policies, specifically the ongoing Vietnam War.

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