Richard Nixon

January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913–1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, the only U.S. president to resign. A Republican, he represented California in both houses of Congress and served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under Dwight D. Eisenhower. His presidency saw reduced U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, from 1969 to 1974. A lawyer and Navy officer, he became known as an anti-communist congressman and senator from California and was Dwight Eisenhower's vice president from 1953 to 1961.

He lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy and won in 1968. He ended direct US combat in Vietnam, opened relations with China with his 1972 visit, and signed arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. At home he created the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Watergate scandal, a break-in at the Democratic headquarters and his cover-up of it, led him to resign in August 1974, the only US president to do so.