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When you hear the name Richard Nixon most people think Watergate scandal. In this clip Walter Cronkite takes us back to the political scandals during the presidency of Nixon.

On January 20, 1961, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the thirty fifth president of the United States. Two months before, in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history, Kennedy, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, won 49.7 percent of the popular vote, surpassing by a fraction the 49.6 percent received by Vice President Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. During his famous inauguration address, Kennedy, the youngest candidate

On September 8, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first African American woman to win the U.S. singles championship, defeating Louise Brough 6 2, 6 2 on the grass courts of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. Earlier that summer, she had become the first black player to win a singles title at Wimbledon, defeating American Darlene Hard, 6 3, 6 2. At Forest Hills, Gibson received the championship trophy, filled with white gladioli and red roses, from Vice President Richard Nixon. Gibson was bo

On November 6, 1962, Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presidential candidate in 1960, was defeated by Democrat Edmund ''Pat'' Brown in his bid for California's gubernatorial seat. The next morning, Nixon conceded defeat in one of the most bitter speeches of his political career. Blaming a biased press for Brown's resounding victory, Nixon announced that he was leaving politics. The next year, he left California and moved to New York City, whe...

A look at Richard Nixon and his involvement in Vietnam

On August 8, 1974, in an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. "By taking this action," he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process ...

On September 26, 1960, for the first time in U.S. history, a debate between presidential candidates was shown on television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters. Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from this first of four televised debates, partly owing to his greater ease before the camera than Nixon, who, unlike Kennedy, seemed n

At noon on August 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president of the United States following Richard Nixon's resignation. Ford, who had been appointed vice president after Spiro Agnew's resignation in 1973, was the first president in U.S. history to come to the office by appointment rather than election. With the American economy suffering through severe inflation and an energy crisis, and with public faith in the White House eroded after the Watergate scandal...

Jackie Robinson first broke the color barrier in baseball and he continued to break ranks in politics with his support of Richard Nixon. Jackie's daughter, Sharon Robinson, and author, Michael Long, discuss the rocky relationship between Jackie and Nixon.

Hard Target speaks to Pat Buchannan on the secrecy of Richard Nixon's White House.

On September 25, 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court acquired a distinctly conservative character when Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as chief justice and Antonin Scalia as an associate justice. Rehnquist was appointed to the high court by President Richard Nixon in 1971, and emerged as the leader of its conservative minority bloc. In this capacity, he was often in conflict with Chief Justice Warren Burger, a fellow Republican appointee who frequently sided with the court's liberal jus...

During a live television and radio broadcast, President Richard Nixon stuns the nation by announcing that he will visit communist China the following year.

President Gerald R. Ford was the first president to come to the nation's highest office by appointment rather than election. Appointed President Richard Nixon's vice president in 1973 after Spiro Agnew resigned in disgrace, he became president on August 9, 1974, when the Watergate scandal forced Nixon's resignation. With the American economy suffering through severe inflation and an energy crisis, and with public faith in the White House eroded after Watergate, Preside...

On this day in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommends that America's 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and removed from office.

Timothy Leary was an icon of the psychedelic 1960s. He was, in President Richard Nixon's words, ''the most dangerous man in America.''

In 1968, Republican Richard Nixon successfully ran for president on a ticket he shared with Spiro Agnew, a relatively obscure former governor of Maryland. Agnew was known by conservatives for his tough law and order views, and after the election his speeches attacking Vietnam War protesters and the media won him national recognition. On November 13, 1969, he was heard sharply criticizing the television networks coverage of a Vietnam policy speech by President Nixon. Re elected with Nixon in 1972

President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office.

TipVision host Charlie Stone reviews Sean Penn in "The Assassination of Richard Nixon".

President Richard Nixon makes a phone call to Buzz and Neil. This video courtesy of THE HISTORY CHANNEL.

John F. Kennedy's opening remarks in his first debate with Richard M. Nixon, September 26, 1960. | Courtesy of The National Archives. This video courtesy of THE HISTORY CHANNEL.

A historical look at the impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon

On January 2, 1960, John F. Kennedy officially announced his bid for the presidency when a reporter asked him if, as in 1956, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for vice president. Ruling out such a possibility, Kennedy belittled the office of vice president currently held by probable Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon as amounting to breaking the occasional tie in the Senate and ''watching the health of the president.'' That the ...

After he lost the 1962 California gubernatorial race to Democrat Pat Brown, many observers felt that Richard Nixon's political career was over. The failed Republican president candidate of 1960 apparently felt the same way, telling the press in a bitter concession speech in November 1962, ''You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.'' However, in 1966, his successful campaigning for Repu...

On March 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced the engagement of his eldest daughter Tricia to Edward Cox, a New Yorker who had previously worked for consumer advocate Ralph Nader. The wedding was held on June 12 outside the White House. Guests included Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and Nader. The weather was rainy that day, so President Nixon kept an open line to Andrews Air Force Base in order to learn when there would be a break in the squalls.

On September 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he committed or may have committed while in office. Nixon had resigned as president on August 9 after evidence of his direct involvement in the Watergate scandal was revealed and his impeachment became a certainty. His successor, Vice President Ford, was the first president to come to the office through appointment rather than election. Ford had replaced Spiro Agnew as vice president only

On April 22, 1994, former president Richard M. Nixon died in New York City of complications resulting from a stroke he suffered on April 19. He was eighty one years old. Undoubtedly the most controversial president of the twentieth century, Nixon is best remembered for the Watergate affair, a political scandal that erupted after it was revealed that he and his aides had engaged in illegal activities during his 1972 re election campaign and then attempted to cover up evidence of their wrongdoing

On the evening of August 8, 1974, in a nationally televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announced his intention to resign his office effective noon the next day. With impeachment certain for his criminal involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to become the first president in American history to resign. ''By taking this action,'' he said in the subdued yet dramatic address from the Oval Off...

In 1968, Richard M. Nixon won the presidency with a promise of bringing ''peace with honor'' in Vietnam. However, despite his talk of peace, honor in Vietnam meant the same to Nixon as it did to his White House predecessors: ensuring the security of South Vietnam and preventing the spread of communism in Indochina. A string of U.S. military disappointments in 1968 had crushed hopes that an end to the war was in sight, so Nixon attempted to change course in Vie...

In July of 1959, Vice President Richard M. Nixon traveled to Moscow to open the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park, organized as a goodwill gesture by the U.S.S.R. On July 24, 1959, in front of replica of a suburban American kitchen, Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engaged in an impromptu debate about the merits and disadvantages of capitalism and communism. Watched by applauding reporters and Soviet officials, the informal exchange was known as the ''Kitc...

On November 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon gave a televised press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover up, despite recent congressional testimony by former White House legal counsel John Dean to the contrary. The embattled president also spoke of his questionable tax record and the subpoena of the Watergate tapes official recordings of White House conversations expected to prove that Nixon was guilty of criminal activity. The Watergate affair began when a b

On January 23, 1971, after nearly five years of talks, negotiators Henry Kissinger of the United States and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam initialed a peace agreement to end the war in Vietnam. That evening, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced the Paris agreement, praising it as the fulfillment of his promise to bring ''peace with honor'' to Vietnam. Four days later, on January 27, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietc...

On September 23, 1952, Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, the Republican candidate for the vice presidency, appeared on national television to defend himself against reports that he had kept a ''secret fund'' of $18,000 to underwrite his political expenses as senator. Although legal, the fund, collected from political supporters and used for undisclosed purposes, became a major scandal in the GOP presidential campaign. Republican leaders urged him to with...

TipVision host Charlie Stone reviews The Assassination of Richard Nixon with Sean Penn.

On November 4, 1980, President Jimmy Carter was defeated in his reelection bid by Ronald Reagan in a landslide Republican victory. Carter received only forty one percent of the popular votes and carried just six states. Four years earlier, the election of Carter, a former peanut farmer who portrayed himself as a man of the people, seemed to symbolize the end of the cynical era of politics characterized by Richard Nixon and Watergate. However, President Carter failed to convert his ambitious prog

Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 1937. Proving himself an energetic politician, he moved to the Senate in 1949, where he was appointed majority leader in 1955. In 1960, he served as John F. Kennedy's running mate, and his presence helped Kennedy carry a close election against Republican Richard Nixon. After Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States. One year lat...

On October 10, 1973, less than a year before Richard M. Nixon's resignation as president of the United States, Spiro Agnew became the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption. He was subsequently fined $10,000, sentenced to three years probation, and disbarred by the Maryland court of appeals. Admitted to the bar in 1949, Agnew entered pol...

Spiro Agnew, President Richard M. Nixon's first vice president, was one of the nation's most outspoken critics of the antiwar and counterculture movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, midway through his first term as vice president, he campaigned vigorously in the congressional campaigns against liberals and antiwar candidates in both parties. On May 22, 1970, before a Republican dinner in Houston, Texas, he was heard denouncing intellectuals and college students...

On December 19, 1974, Nelson A. Rockefeller, a former four term governor of New York and the grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was sworn in as the forty first vice president of the United States. Rockefeller had been nominated to the office by President Gerald Ford, who reached the White House following the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August. Like Ford before him, who had been appointed vice president after Spiro Agnew's resignation in October 1973, Rockefel...

Angelou talks about the lack of choice for young black people of their politicians. She touches on the "cool disregard" in the community toward Nixon.

On July 13, 1964, delegates of the Republican Party convened at the Grand National Livestock Pavilion in San Francisco to nominate their candidates for the presidency and the vice presidency. The convention, which saw Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona win the party's nomination, was among the most memorable in American history. Goldwater's victory at "Cow Palace" was a great coup for the conservative wing of the Republican Party, though many moderates in the party...

Ted Koppel at Adcraft Cable Day Meeting on Feb. 28, 2007 about Richard Nixon.

US President Richard Nixon Phone Call to Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Moon July 1969

Hard Target speaks to Pat Buchannan on the secrecy of Richard Nixon's White House.

Jackie Robinson first broke the color barrier in baseball and he continued to break ranks in politics with his support of Richard Nixon. Jackie's daughter, Sharon Robinson, and author, Michael Long, discuss the rocky relationship.

The Evil Cat and the Richard Nixon baseball bat save Jean Jean from the Hungry Hungry Nipples in this stream of consciousness short.

In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign.

On this day in 1974, one day after the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as president, making him the first man to assume the presidency upon his predecessor's resignation.

On September 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he committed or may have committed while in office.

On November 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon gave a televised press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover up.

After he lost the 1962 California gubernatorial race to Democrat Pat Brown, many observers felt that Richard Nixon's political career was over. However, in 1968 he again secured the Republican presidential nomination.