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Parents were Hannah Nixon and Francis Nixon
Second out of 5 brothers -
Richards Father moved from Yorba Linda, CA to Whittier, CA -
Finished 3rd in his high school class winning numerous awards for being an all-star student -
Graduated with a Bachelors Degree in History -
Graduated from Duke -
Met Pat Ryan at a theatre group after graduating Duke University -
Married Pat Ryan at Mission Inn in Riverside, California. -
Nixon worked as an attorney at the Office for Price Administration (OPA) in Washington D.C. -
was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy. -
Richard was urged by republican leaders to run for a seat in The House of Representatives -
Nixon was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander -
Pat and Richard welcomed their first child -
2nd daughter was born -
Was elected to US senate -
an address made by Nixon during his running for vice president -
Elected VP for Dwight D. Eisenhower -
went head-to-head with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev -
ran for president against JFK and was defeated by the smallest vote count in American history -
Elected president of the US -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took mankind’s first steps on the moon while Nixon was president -
new foreign policy doctrine in Guam that called for the United States to act within its national interest and keep all existing treaty commitments with its allies -
Signed the National Environmental Policy Act -
announced military incursion into Cambodia -
5 men broke into Watergate office stealing document and wiretapping phone of the re-election -
Nixon released some of the tapes from Watergate sandal -
Supreme Court orders him to release tapes -
Resigns from President of the US -
Worked as America’s Elder Statesman, advising his successors Ronald Regan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton -
Nixon-Frost interview became the most-ever watched political interviews in history -
Pat Nixon died at home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, at the age of 81 -
President Nixon died of stroke at 81 in New York City