Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-94). US politician; 37th president of the US. He served as vice-president (1952-60) under Eisenhower and was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1960. Following several political setbacks, he was elected president in 1969. In 1972 he became the first US president to visit communist China. After his re-election later that year he achieved the withdrawal of the US from the Vietnam War (1973). However, public support for Nixon crumbled during investigations into the so-called Water-gate affair, which revealed that agents of Nixon’s presidential campaign had broken into Democratic party headquarters to gain information. Threatened with impeachment for his tacit approval of the affair, Nixon resigned, being the first US president to do so.
“President Nixon’s motto was, if two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. Norman Cousins, The Daily Telegraph 17 July 1979”
