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- As far back as the 1970s, the white working class began to turn to Richard Nixon because of a perception that, as one man put it, government was "payin' people who are on welfare today doin' nothin'!† (source)
- He passed on to her things he had heard on the streets, like how the American president Richard Nixon had resigned over a scandal.† (source)
- Richard Nixon was finished.† (source)
- Just as well: I spent the night surfing the Web (no porn, I swear) and reading The Final Days, a book about Richard Nixon and Watergate.† (source)
- It was where Richard Nixon practiced in the years before he won the presidency in 1968.† (source)
- Just three weeks after Henrietta's name was first published, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and launched the War on Cancer, designating $1.† (source)
- He considered many notable Americans to be his friends, including Governor Ronald Reagan, former president Richard Nixon, Gene Autry, Art Linkletter, Lawrence Welk, and Pat Boone.† (source)
- Well, let me make something perfectly clear (as Richard Nixon says on those old news clips about the Watergate scandal, right before he's about to fill the room with fog) I am not immortal.† (source)
- But I just pulled my magazine higher over my face, following the advice of the immortal Richard Milhous Nixon: plausible deniability.† (source)
- In 1976, Jimmy Carter was elected president over Gerald Ford, who'd replaced Richard Nixon.† (source)
- 'All I'm saying is that getting the Sharp Cereal Professor to do another spot seems about as shrewd to me as having Richard Nixon do an encore State of the Union address.† (source)
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- In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon signed an executive order that outlawed the development of offensive biological weapons in the United States.† (source)
- Within the first month of our arrival in Beijing, we heard that the president of America, Richard Nixon, was to pay a historic visit to China.† (source)
- From left to right: John Bradley, Goldie Price (mother of Franklin Sousley), Richard Nixon, Belle Block (mother of Harlon Block), Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes.† (source)
- In Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. returned from Washington, DC, where he'd been received by Vice President Richard Nixon in the nation's Capitol, even though in his own state capitol he couldn't drink from the same water fountain as a white janitor.† (source)
- He won the popular vote over Richard Nixon by a razor-thin margin, garnering just 49 percent of the tally.† (source)
- Both Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan spoke with that accent—Nixon from birth in California, Reagan a transplant from Midwestern Illinois.† (source)
- She didn't talk much, and when she did, it was usually a bitter tirade against Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon.† (source)
- The gap between those parents and us kids was like the one between Richard Nixon and the flower children of Haight-Ashbury.† (source)
- I could understand the class not knowing Richard Nixon, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great, but I could not see how black children living in the latter half of the twentieth century could fail to know Sidney Poitier, Wilt Chamberlain, or Willie Mays.† (source)
- For example, President Gerald Ford received the Profile in Courage Award for his pardon of Richard Nixon.† (source)
- That was the year Richard Nixon was elected president; maybe you remember him.† (source)
- Behind Kennedy stand Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Harry Truman.† (source)
- Richard M. Nixon smiles as Angel places his cap on Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's head.† (source)
- "One of the highlights of my sixty-first birthday celebration," President Richard Nixon wrote in 1974, "was when Tricia suggested we needed a 'break' on our drive to Palm Springs, and we turned in at McDonald's.† (source)
- Richard Nixon was pardoned.† (source)
- Ever since the administration of President Richard Nixon, the fast food industry has worked closely with its allies in Congress and the White House to oppose new worker safety, food safety, and minimum wage laws.† (source)
- One was George Bush, who had just finished serving as the first U.S. envoy to China after President Richard Nixon's visit in 1972.† (source)
- Like General Walker, Richard Nixon has been making a political name for himself by denouncing Communists.† (source)
- On that same trip to America, the Cuban leader met with Vice President Richard Nixon, who was immediately impressed by Castro.† (source)
- John Connally survived his Dallas wounds and went on to serve two terms as governor of Texas before returning to Washington to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of the Treasury.† (source)
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