Richard Nixon

Standard Name: Nixon, Richard

Connections

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Characters Muriel Spark
Closely modelled on the Watergate scandal of June 1972, this present-tense novel explores the Machiavellian political cunning of the recently appointed Abbess Alexandra, the Richard Nixon figure. Norman Page calls the highly mobile negotiator Sister...
Occupation Pearl S. Buck
She continued to write, and occasionally to attend meetings of Welcome House and her Foundation . When President Nixon visited China in February 1972 she thought of either accompanying or following him, but found to...
Textual Production Mary McCarthy
MMC published another political work, The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits, this time taking as her subject the scandal which in the end brought down President Richard Nixon .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
30 June 1974
Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain. W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
630-1, 635
Textual Production Mary McCarthy
Vietnam was the result of this first trip to Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City). It was first published as a three-part series and later collected in a pamphlet. McCarthy's simple yet direct...

Timeline

26 September 1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part...

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26 September 1960

John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part in the first televised debate between candidates for the presidency of the United States.
“1960: Kennedy and Nixon Clash in TV debate”. BBC News: On This Day, 26 Sept. 1960.

31 October 1968: US President Lyndon B. Johnson (in one of...

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31 October 1968

US President Lyndon B. Johnson (in one of the final acts of his presidency) halted the bombing of North Vietnam, as a precondition for peace negotiations.
Kettle, Martin. “Nixon ’wrecked early peace in Vietnam’”. The Guardian, 9 Aug. 2000, p. 3.
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November 1968: Richard Nixon was elected President of the...

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November 1968

Richard Nixon was elected President of the USA at the height of the Vietnam war. He was re-elected in November 1972.
“Nixon, Richard Milhous”. Encyclopedia Americana: The American Presidency.

4 May 1970: Members of the Ohio National Guard opened...

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4 May 1970

Members of the OhioNational Guard opened fire on students of Kent State University demonstrating peacefully against the Vietnam War (specifically, against Nixon 's sending ground troops to Cambodia). Four students (two of each...

13 June 1971: The New York Times began printing the Pentagon...

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13 June 1971

The New York Times began printing the Pentagon Papers dossier compiled by Daniel Ellsberg as he worked for the US administration on an internal history of American involvement in Vietnam.
Johnson, Chalmers. “Who’s in charge?”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2003, pp. 7-9.
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February 1972: US President Richard Nixon took the remarkable...

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February 1972

US President Richard Nixon took the remarkable step of visiting Beijing with Henry Kissinger for discussions with Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung , restoring relations between China and the USA.
Schell, Orville. “Realpolitik’s finest hour”. Guardian Weekly, 16–22 Mar. 2007, p. 25.
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17 June 1972: A secret investigation unit made their second...

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17 June 1972

A secret investigation unit made their second break-in at the headquarters of the US Democratic Party in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC; the investigators were arrested.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
224
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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“Watergate’s Deep Throat revealed”. BBC News, 1 June 2005.

7 November 1972: Richard Nixon was re-elected President of...

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7 November 1972

Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the United States—although his agency in the break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC, had already been established by reporters Carl Bernstein and...

9 August 1974: US President Richard Nixon, facing almost...

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9 August 1974

US President Richard Nixon , facing almost certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal, resigned.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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