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Today is the day of Richard Nixon's birth.
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1953- 1960 Richard Nixon serves as vice president to Dwight D. Eisenhower
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GOP presidential nominee Nixon was defeated by John F. Kennedy - losing out on the presidency.
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Nixon runs for governor of California – defeated by Jerry Brown
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Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election
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Nixon Goes to China - a foreign policy triumph
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Howard Hunt makes repeated demands on Nixon’s associates for hush money for himself and others arrested in the Watergate break-in . Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate the break-in and learn enough to suspect that the burglars are connected to the White House and that hush money is likely being paid to them.
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Five burglars are arrested in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex. They were attempting to place a wiretap on the telephone of the Committee chairman.