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Richard Nixon   1913-1994

 

37th president of the United States   1969-1974

 

 

 

 

Elvis Presley meeting Richard Nixon.

December 1970,

at his own request,

Presley met then-President Richard Nixon

in the Oval Office of The White House.

Elvis is on the right.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/nixon-met-elvis/ 

 

Photo is by Ollie Atkins,

chief White House photographer

at the time.

See ARC record

Public Domain (NARA).

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Elvis-nixon.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

Primary Source: NARA

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/nixon-met-elvis/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Milhous Nixon    1913-1994

 

37th President of the United States    1969-1974

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/richard-nixon 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/richard-milhous-nixon

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/nixon-met-elvis/ 

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=12 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/watergate-constitution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Richard_Nixon

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/
nyregion/sid-davidoff-dead.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/
us/politics/j-stanley-pottinger-dead.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/
us/politics/pete-mccloskey-dead.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/
1193755188/chile-coup-50-years-pinochet-kissinger-human-rights-allende

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/
vietnam-war-documentary-nixon-nuclear-weapons-pbs

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/
books/review/watergate-garrett-m-graff.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/07/
george-shultz-obituary

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/07/
965162112/george-p-shultz-giant-of-20th-century-american-politics-
dies-at-100

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/
obituaries/george-p-shultz-dead.htm

 

 

 

 

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2020-11-06/
allende-inauguration-50th-anniversary

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/
872281949/trump-v-nixon-on-race-why-2020-isnt-quite-1968

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/
683414660/rachel-maddow-draws-lessons-from-spiro-agnew-
on-bad-behavior-by-people-in-office

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/
opinion/how-nixon-came-back.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/24/
587809173/billy-graham-walked-a-line-and-regretted-crossing-over-it-
when-it-came-to-politi

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/21/
533711528/in-the-event-of-attack-heres-how-the-government-plans-to-save-itself

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/
business/c-jackson-grayson-dead-led-nixon-price-control-commission.html

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/
522926517/nixon-the-life-humanizes-but-doesnt-rehabilitate

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/
books/richard-nixon-biography-john-a-farrell.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/13/
321316118/40-years-on-woodward-and-bernstein-recall-reporting-on-watergate

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/
upshot/jackie-robinson-and-nixon-life-and-death-of-a-political-friendship.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/
nixon-love-letters-museum-california

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/opinion/the-silent-majority-directors-statement.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/opinion/populism-and-the-silent-majority.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/us/09hickel.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2007/06/17/
11141292/remembering-watergate

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/01/media.pressandpublishing  

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/
newsid_2779000/2779551.stm

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/01/politics/01throat.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/16/
archives/nixon-in-pho

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/26/
archives/nixon-saw-cuba-and-chile-enclosing-latin-america.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/20/
archives/excerpts-from-interview-with-nixon-about-domestic-effects-of.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/12/
archives/nixon-declares-he-sought-to-bar-allende-election.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/24/
archives/70-nixon-order-to-cia-to-balk-allende-reported-presidents.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1974/aug/09/
usa.hellapick

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/04/
archives/back-to-kent-state.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/24/
archives/news-summary-and-index.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/27/
archives/power-without-pity.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/03/
archives/new-jersey-pages-nixon-bars-truce-for-vietnam-war-till-pact-is.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/16/
archives/ray-charles-visits-white-house.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/29/
archives/nixon-rules-out-duty-in-vietnam-for-new-draftees-only-volunteers.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1972/jun/19/
past.fromthearchive

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/09/
archives/transcript-of-president-nixons-address-to-nation-on-his-policy-in.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/30/
archives/-all-weve-risked-hangs-in-the-balance-nixon.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/27/
archives/transcript-of-nixons-address-on-troop-withdrawals-and-situation-in.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/04/
archives/buying-time-in-the-vietnam-war-nixon-leaves-end-in-doubt-in-move-to.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/insider/1971-
supreme-court-allows-publication-of-pentagon-papers.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/19/
archives/nixon-vs-congress-on-vietnam.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/17/
archives/mr-nixons-vietnam-strategy.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/24/
archives/mr-nixons-choice-in-vietnam.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/02/
archives/nixon-drugs-and-the-war.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/30/
archives/nixon-indicates-indefinite-stay-for-vietnam-gis-a-residual-force-to.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/09/
archives/mr-nixons-vietnam-politics.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/08/
archives/text-of-the-address-by-president-nixon.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/08/
archives/nixon-promises-vietnam-pullout-of-100000-more-gis-by-december.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/02/
archives/president-nixon-and-vietnam-the-us-proposal-holds-real-hope-that.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/21/
archives/nixon-to-pull-out-150000-from-vietnam-in-a-year-says-hanoi-blocks.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/08/
archives/vietnam-1-critics-say-nixon-policy-is-a-hoax.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/09/14/
archives/nixon-and-vietnam-he-tries-amidst-conflicting-pressures-to-end-an.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/07/31/
archives/mrs-nixon-visits-vietnam-hospitals.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/30/
archives/mr-nixon-on-vietnam.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/10/28/
archives/nixon-sees-need-for-vietnam-role-terms-successful-end-to-war-a.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/03/
archives/nixon-again-urges-wider-vietnam-war.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watergate scandal timeline    1968-1974

 

Richard Nixon > Watergate    1972-1974

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiro Theodore Agnew    1918-1996

 

39th vice president of the United States

from 1969 until his resignation in 1973.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/
683414660/rachel-maddow-draws-lessons-from-spiro-agnew-
on-bad-behavior-by-people-in-office

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 1972

 

Richard Nixon makes historic visit to China

 

 

 

 

Ji Chaozhu (left) served as an interpreter

during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China in February 1972.

 

This photo shows Nixon and China's then-Premier Zhou Enlai

posing together at Shanghai Airport

before Nixon departed for the U.S. on February 28, 1972.

 

Photograph: AP

 

'Chinese Encounters with America' argues U.S. and China lost shared interests

NPR

September 13, 2025    6:17 AM ET

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/
g-s1-87796/chinese-encounters-with-america-interview

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_to_China

 

https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/
newsid_2728000/2728761.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 26, 1960

 

The First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/
opinion/26sorensen.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Milhous Nixon    1913-1994

 

Vice Presidency    1953-1961

 

 

 

 

Vice. Pres. Richard Nixon.

 

Location: US

 

Date taken: September 1960

 

Photograph: Joseph Scherschel

 

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24 July 1959

 

Nixon-Khrushchev "kitchen debate"

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/
newsid_2779000/2779551.stm

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/july/24/
newsid_3916000/3916851.stm

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/
opinion/24safire.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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