American Minute - Jan. 9 - The 37th President

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

He lost his first presidential race to John F. Kennedy by the smallest margin to that date.

A Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during WWII, he was a Congressman, Senator, and Vice-President under Eisenhower.

His name was Richard Milhous Nixon, born JANUARY 9, 1913.

He was the 37th U.S. President before becoming the only one to
resign.

He ended the draft, established the EPA, was the first President to visit Red China, sent the first astronauts to the moon, whom he addressed via radio telephone, and began the Space Shuttle program.

He appointed Supreme Court Justices Warren Burger, Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist.

In 1972 he was re-elected in one of the biggest landslides in history.

A proponent of Civil Rights, President Nixon stated in his Inaugural Address, 1969:

"No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together.

This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience.

What remains is to give life to what is in the law: to ensure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before man."