Richard Nixon Time Line

By davenportm

  • Birth Date

    Birth Date
    Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, CA on January 9, 1913

  • Parents and Siblings

    Parents and Siblings
    Mother : Hannah Milhous Nixon
    Father : Francis A. Nixon
    Siblings : Edward Nixon, Harold Samuel Nixon, Donald Nixon, Arthur Burdg Nixon

  • College

    College
    Nixon attended local Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he earned a reputation as a formidable debater, a standout in college drama productions and a successful athlete. Upon graduation from Whittier in 1934, Nixon received a full scholarship to Duke University Law School in Durham, N.C.

  • Wife and Kids

    Wife and Kids
    Wife : Patricia Ryan
    Daughters : Patricia and Julie

  • Jobs Before Presidency

    Jobs Before Presidency
    During WWII he served as Navy lintuent. After leaving the service he was elected into Congress from his California district, he won the Senate seat.

  • Vice President

    Vice President
    Nixon was elected Vice President 1952 by General Eisenhower. Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration.

  • Presidency

    Presidency
    He was elected president in 1968. While in office he ended the draft. His was in presidency when the first man walked the moon

  • Resigning

    Resigning
    The "Watergate" scandal was what made Richard Nixon resign from presidency. He was the only president to resign

  • Accomplishments

    Accomplishments
    During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina.

  • Death

    Death
    Richard Nixon died on April 22,1994. In his last years he had wrote books on how presidency was.