Richard Milhous Nixon

Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994

Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was the only President in more than two centuries of American history to resign from office. He was driven from office by the Watergate scandal, resigning in the face of certain impeachment on August 9, 1974. He often acknowledged that the event would inevitably stain his pages in history.

Yet Mr. Nixon, one of the half dozen pivotal figures of American politics in the quarter century that followed World War II, wrought foreign policy accomplishments of historic proportions. He reopened American relations with China in 1972. And he began the rapprochement with the Soviet Union with the signing of the first treaty limiting the potentially deadly nuclear arms race.

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