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Richard Nixon
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North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
— Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (November 3, 1969)
Richard Nixon
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
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Lived 1913–1994, aged 81United States
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The only U.S. president to resign from office. Nixon left in 1974 under the weight of Watergate — a break-in at Democratic headquarters that spiraled into cover-up, eroded congressional support, and made impeachment inevitable.
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Born to a poor Quaker family in Southern California in 1913, Nixon worked his way through Whittier College and Duke Law, then built his reputation as an anti-communist during the Alger Hiss case in the House. Elected to the Senate in 1950, he served eight years as Eisenhower's vice president, lost narrowly to Kennedy in 1960, announced his retirement after a failed California governor's race in 1962, then came back to win the presidency in 1968. His first term brought the Apollo 11 landing, the Environmental Protection Agency, diplomatic openings with China and the Soviet Union, and the end of…
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Richard Nixon
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Hello, Neil and Buzz. I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House. And this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made.
— Telephone message from the Oval office to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. (July 20, 1969)
Richard Nixon
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A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
— 1969 note to self, as quoted in Nixon (1987) by Stephen E. Ambrose, p. 284
Richard Nixon
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I leave you gentleman now. You will now write it; you will interpret it; that's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know....
— Press conference after losing the election for Governor of California (November 7, 1962); most reports used an official "Transcript of
Richard Nixon
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Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets? Isn't this the kind of competition you want?
— Remarks to Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev during the Kitchen Debate (24 July 1959)
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