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2 days ago · The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.
Jun 9, 2024 · Edward Nixon died on Wednesday at age 88 in a nursing facility in Bothell, a Seattle suburb, according to the Richard Nixon Foundation in Yorba Linda, California. Following his brother's historic trip to China in February 1972, the younger Nixon began his own ventures in the Asian country on a business trip in the early 1980s.
Jun 25, 2024 · Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office. He was also vice president (1953–61) under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
2 days ago · Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, were re-elected, defeating for a second time Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, former Illinois governor. This election was the sixth rematch in American presidential history, a situation which did not occur again until 2024.
3 days ago · Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
Jun 19, 2024 · Edward VIII, prince of Wales (1911–36) and king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and emperor of India from January 20 to December 10, 1936, when he abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson. Edward VIII was the only British sovereign to voluntarily resign the crown.
3 days ago · The films has the infamous scene of Nixon pushing him into the press. To round out the ensemble, Bob Hoskins is J. Edgard Hoover, Ed Harris is Howard Hunt, Mary Steenburgen is Mother Nixon, Edward Herrmann is Nelson Rockefeller, Kevin Dunn is Chuck Colson, Brian Bedford is Clyde Tolson, Sam Waterston is Richard Helms, Saul Rubinek is Howard Klein, James Karen is William Rogers,
