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  Born in Yorba Linda, California to Francis and Hannah Nixon
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  Nixon moves to Washington, D.C., to join the Office of Price Administration
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  Nixon serves active duty in the U.S. Navy.
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  Discharged from U.S. Naval Reserve and leaves military as lieutenant commander.
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  Daughter Julie Nixon is born
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  Nixon is elected as Senator for California and serves from December 1, 1950 until January 1, 1953
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  Nixon is elected Vice President of the United States to President Dwight Eisenhower
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  Nixon receives Republican nomination for President.
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  Nominated as Republican candidate for President
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  Nixon is elected 37th President of the United States.
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  Nixon outlines the policy of "Vietnamization" where the US would provide South Vietnam with financial aid but withdraw American troops.
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  Announces extension of Welfare Reform proposals
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  Begins secretly recording conversations and meetings in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room
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  Five burglars working for the Commitee to Re-Elect the President are arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex.
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  Nixon is re-elected to a second term
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  Conversation among President Nixon, John Dean, and H. R. Haldeman. History of the Watergate break- in and cover-up for the President are discussed
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  Peace treaty ending the Vietnam War signed in Paris
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  Alexander P. Butterfield reveals the existence of the secret White House taping system in advance of his public testimony
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  n a television broadcast, Nixon announces to the nation that he will resign
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  Nixon accepts the pardon of President Gerald Ford
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  Nixon visits with top leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, Turkey, and Great Britain
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  Mrs. Nixon dies in Park Ridge, New Jersey
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