Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States,serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His five years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War,détente with the Soviet Union and China,the first manned Moon landings,and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early,when he became the only president to resign from office,following the Watergate scandal.
Breathitt County is a county in the eastern Appalachian portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 United States Census,the population was 13,878. Its county seat is Jackson. The county was formed in 1839 and was named for John Breathitt,who was Governor of Kentucky from 1832 to 1834. Breathitt County was a prohibition or dry county,until a public vote in July 2016 that allowed alcohol sales.
Jackson is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Breathitt County,Kentucky,in the United States. The population was 2,231 according to the 2010 U.S. census.
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of President Richard Nixon. She also served as Second Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 when her husband was vice president.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower is an American author who is the younger daughter of former U.S. president Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. Her husband David is the grandson of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie Eisenhower.
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and burial site of Richard Milhous Nixon,the 37th president of the United States (1969–1974),and his wife Pat Nixon.
Marlow Webster Cook was an American politician who served Kentucky in the United States Senate from his appointment in December 1968 to his resignation in December 1974. He was a moderate Republican.
Patricia Nixon Cox is the elder daughter of the 37th United States president Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon,and sister to Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr. was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A member of one of the state's political families,he was the 51st Governor of Kentucky,serving from 1963 to 1967. After serving in World War II and graduating from the University of Kentucky,Breathitt worked on the presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson,the senatorial campaign of Alben Barkley,and the gubernatorial campaign of Bert T. Combs. When Combs won the governorship in 1959,he appointed Breathitt as personnel commissioner,where he wrote legislation establishing the first merit system for state employees. He continued to hold appointive offices throughout Combs' tenure,and in 1962,Combs endorsed Breathitt to succeed him as governor.
The Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee,in the Watergate complex,by members of President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign and the subsequent cover-up of the break-in resulting in Nixon's resignation on August 9,1974,as well as other abuses of power by the Nixon White House that were discovered during the course of the scandal.
Gerald Lee "Jerry" Warren was an American journalist and newspaper editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune. He served under Ron Ziegler as deputy press secretary in the Richard Nixon administration until 1974. He served as Nixon's de facto final White House Press Secretary after Ron Ziegler's appointment as assistant to the president in June 1974,though Zielger kept the title. He then held the same position as well as White House Director of Communications in the Gerald Ford administration until 1975.
James Turner Morehead was a United States Senator and the 12th Governor of Kentucky. He was the first native-born Kentuckian to hold the governorship of the state. A member of Henry Clay's National Republican Party,Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to challenge the Democratic Party's dominance in the state.
Hannah Elizabeth Milhous Nixon was the mother of President Richard Nixon.
Elinor Isabel Agnew was the second lady of the United States from 1969 to 1973. She was the wife of the 39th vice president of the United States,Spiro Agnew,who had previously served as Governor of Maryland and Baltimore County Executive. Although Judy Agnew attempted to avoid political discussion during her tenure as second lady,preferring to cultivate her image primarily as a wife and mother,her dismissive remarks about the women's liberation movement were quoted by media.
Murray M Chotiner was an American political strategist,attorney,government official,and close associate and friend of President Richard Nixon during much of the 37th President's political career. He served as campaign manager for the future president's successful runs for the United States Senate in 1950 and for the vice presidency in 1952,and managed the campaigns of other California Republicans. He was active in each of Nixon's two successful runs for the White House in low-profile positions.
The Richard Nixon Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda,California. It was founded in August 1983 by Richard Nixon,37th president of the United States,and served as the governing body of the Nixon Library for nearly twenty years. Today it operates the Nixon Library in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration,which is an entity of the federal government of the United States,in addition to undertaking charitable and education-based activities.
Christopher Nixon Cox is an American lawyer based in New York. He is the son of Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox,and grandson of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. Cox is the CEO of Lightswitch Capital,a private equity fund investing in biotech companies.
The desk in the Vice President's Room of the United States Capitol,colloquially known as the Wilson desk and previously called the McKinley-Barkley desk,is a large mahogany partner's desk used by U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used by a President in the Oval Office,it was purchased in 1898 by Garret Augustus Hobart,the 24th Vice President of the United States,for the Vice President's Room in the United States Capitol.
Ruth Hammack Alexander was an American activist for women in collegiate sports. She established the "Lady Gator Athletic" program at the University of Florida to allow women to participate in intercollegiate athletics for the first time.
Mary Louise Foust served three terms as the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts and was the first woman to run for Governor of Kentucky. She was also the first woman in the state to be a licensed attorney and a certified public accountant.
