Richard Nixon
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the Un
Official portrait, 1972
Nixon (second from right) makes his newspaper debut in 1916, contributing five cents to a fund for World War I orphans; his brother Donald is to his right.
Nixon as a senior at Whittier High School in 1930
Nixon's family: Julie and David Eisenhower, President Nixon, First Lady Pat Nixon, Tricia, and Edward Cox on December 24, 1971
Watergate scandal
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The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives associated with Nixon's 1
A view of the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., with the Howard Johnson's motel to the left, with legal notation from the trial of the White House Plumbers
Nixon giving his staple V sign in Pennsylvania during his 1968 campaign
Retired CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (pictured 1964) were the handlers of the five Watergate burglars.
A Sony tape-recorder used by Nixon to record all conversations in the Oval Office