Richard Milhous Nixon
			37th President of the United States		January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974
			Born: January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California		Died: April 22, 1994, in New York, New York
			Father: Francis Anthony Nixon		Mother: Hannah Milhous Nixon
			Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)		Education: Graduated from Whittier College (1934) and Duke University Law School (1937)
			Occupation: Lawyer, public official		Political Party: Republican

Married: Thelma "Patricia" Catherine Ryan (1912-1993), on June 21, 1940

Children: Patricia Nixon (1946- ); Julie Nixon (1948- )

Other Government Positions:

• Attorney for U.S. Office of Emergency Management, 1942

• Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1947-51

• United States Senator, 1951-53

• Vice President, 1953-61

His accomplishments while in office:

• included revenue sharing
• the end of the draft
• new anticrime laws
• broad environmental program
• appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court

American astronauts made the first moon landing during his first term

Some of his most acclaimed achievements:.

• during visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons.
• in January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina.
• in 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria.

The Nixon Library