Nixon

Nixon

By larsenm
  • born

    born

    Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California.Yorba Linda, California in northeastern Orange County, California, approximately 40 milles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. He lived on his fanily farn ontill he was nine.
  • High school

    High school

    Nixon attended Whittler High school. He graguated second in his class. He graduated in 1934.
  • colloge

    colloge

    Nixon attends Whittler College where he received a degree in constitutional history. He graduated second in his class in 1934.
  • Law School

    Law School

    After he graduated from Whittler College he attended Duke University Law School, where he graduated third out of 44.
  • Legal Work

    Legal Work

    He got a job practicing law in Whittier. He met his wife and later had children.
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    Government Work / Navy

    Nixon moves to Washington, D.C., to join the Office of Price Administration. Nixon serves in active duty in the navy in the South Pacific.
  • congress

    congress

    Elected to Congress and later serves on House Committee on Un-American Activities
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    Senate

    Nixon is elected as the Senator for California and serves from December 1, 1950, until January 1, 1953.
  • "Checkers speech"

    "Checkers speech"

    "Checkers speech". Over national T.V. to save his candidacy.
  • VP

    VP

    Inaugurated as Vice President
  • Khrushchev “Debate”

    Khrushchev “Debate”

    Nikita visits US and participates in “ Kitchen Debate” with Nixon
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    Nixon - Kennedy Debates

    Nixon does poorly in some of the Nixon - Kennedy Debates
  • Nixon looses

    Nixon looses

    Looses in a close presidential election to Kennedy
  • . Governs Office Loss speech

    . Governs Office Loss speech

    Nixon is defeated in California gubernatorial race.Nixon tells reporters "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
  • Supreme Court

    Supreme Court

    Argues first case before the Supreme Court
  • bombing

    bombing

    Nixon orders secret bombings of Cambodia to destroy North Vietnamese supply routes and base camps.
  • Election

    Election

    Nixon is elected 37th President of the United States.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization

    Nixon announces he is turning the war over to the South Vietnamese.
  • EPA

    EPA

    Signs National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
  • Expands War

    Expands War

    Announces the launching of military attacks on enemy sanctuaries in Cambodia.
  • Wage and Price Controls

    Wage and Price Controls

    Anounces Wage and Price Controls executive order.
  • China.

    China.

    Nixon visits the People's Republic of China.
  • Watergate

    Watergate

    Watergate brake-in
  • Re-Election

    Re-Election

    Nixon is re-elected to a second term in the largest land-slide victory in American political history
  • End of War for US

    End of War for US

    Peace treaty ending the Vietnam War for the US is signed in Paris
  • Watergate Cover-up

    Watergate Cover-up

    Conversation among President Nixon, John Dean, and H. R. Haldeman about what had happened.
  • Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

    Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

    Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns after corruption charges beginning.
  • Impeachment Proceedings

    Impeachment Proceedings

    House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment against the President
  • Resignation

    Resignation

    Resigned presidency.
  • Pardon

    Pardon

    Nixon accepts the pardon of President Gerald Ford "for all offenses against the United States which he has committed.
  • dies

    dies

    Nixon dies in New York City.