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    Richard Nixon

    President of the United States from 1969 to 1974

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  1. Browse 415 resignation of richard nixon photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. American politician Richard Nixon at the White House with his family after his resignation as President, 9th August 1974.

  2. Browse 422 richard nixon resignation photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. President Richard M. Nixon sits at a desk, holding papers, as he announces his resignation on television, Washington, D.C.

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  4. Jun 16, 2017 · See Richard Nixon's last days as president in photos, just before he resigned from his position at the White House on August 9, 1974.

  5. Telegram sent to US diplomats in Asia ahead of the televised resignation of President Richard Nixon as US President in 1974.

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    On June 17, 1972, five men, including a salaried security coordinator for President Nixons reelection committee, were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Washington, D.C., Watergate complex. Soon after, two other former White House aides were implicated in the break-in, but the ...

    In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, began televised proceedings on the rapidly escalating Watergate affair. One week later, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was sworn in as special Watergate prosecutor. During the Senate hearings, former White House legal co...

    In July, the existence of what were to be called the Watergate tapesofficial recordings of White House conversations between Nixon and his staffwas revealed during the Senate hearings. Cox subpoenaed these tapes, and after three months of delay President Nixon agreed to send summaries of the recordings. Cox rejected the summaries, and Nixon fired h...

    Public confidence in the president rapidly waned, and by the end of July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee had adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers, and hindrance of the impeachment process. On July 30, under coercion from the Supreme Court, Nixon finally released the W...

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  6. Aug 7, 2014 · He says people associate Nixon's resignation with the iconic photo he took of the former president boarding his plane on the south lawn. Kennerly thinks a less-publicized image (below) captures...

  7. Aug 9, 2014 · This picture shows President Richard Nixon's letter of resignation to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, August 9, 1974. Florida Times-Union. Richard Nixon performs the last acts of his...

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