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Nixon
[ nik-suhn ]
noun
- Richard M(il路hous) [mil, -hous], 1913鈥94, 37th president of the U.S., 1969鈥74 (resigned).
- his wife Thelma Catherine Ryan Pat, 1912鈥93, U.S. First Lady 1969鈥74.
Nixon
/ n瑟k藞s蓹蕣n瑟蓹n; 藞n瑟ks蓹n /
noun
- NixonRichard M(ilhous)19131994MUSPOLITICS: politicianPOLITICS: head of state Richard M ( ilhous ). 1913鈥94, US Republican politician; 37th president from 1969 until he resigned over the Watergate scandal in 1974
Derived Forms
- Nixonian, adjective
Example Sentences
He grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, where his late father worked as an attorney who specialized in white-collar crime and once represented President Nixon.
The reason President Nixon was reelected after the Watergate scandal became public is that the masses were not willing to believe the truth.
Meant as a temporary measure, the so-called Nixon shock of 1971 caused the dollar to drop, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates established after the end of World War II.
President Nixon presided over the first Earth Day, founded in large part as a reaction to a devastating oil spill off the coast of California.
But in 1973, then-President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, and his administration added wolves to the list the following year.
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