Richard Milhous Nixon is born to Frank and Hannah Nixon in a small farmhouse on the family’s citrus ranch. He is the second of five sons.
Nixon defeats five-term Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis in California’s 12th district. He quickly gains a reputation as a hard-charging anti-communist. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon led an investigation that exposed Alger Hiss, a former senior State Department official, as a Soviet spy. Hiss was later sent to prison for perjury.
President Nixon becomes the first U.S. President to visit the People’s Republic of China, ending 25 years of diplomatic silence.
— President Nixon
— President Nixon
In the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, five men were arrested with electronic surveillance equipment inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
President Nixon’s second term unraveled amid the political fallout from what became known as the Watergate scandal. Months of investigations by Congress and federal prosecutors gradually eroded Nixon’s political support. Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.
To learn more about Watergate and its aftermath, read our in-depth Watergate Explained timeline.
— August 8, 1974
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