Richard Nixon: A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard Nixon: A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard Nixon: Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard Nixon: Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
Richard Nixon: By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
Richard Nixon: Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard Nixon: For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.
Richard Nixon: When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Richard Nixon: If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard Nixon: I am not a crook.
Richard Nixon was the last former American president to die in the 20th century.
Nixon died on V.I. Lenin's birthday.
Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat Nixon, are buried alongside one another between the Rose Garden and his birth home at the Nixon Libary. Funerals for both were held on the Library grounds.
Attended and graduated from Fullerton High School.
Nixon graduated from Whittier College and Duke University Law School.
On the day President John F. Kennedy was shot, Nixon was in Dallas, Texas.
Nixon is the only President to resign from office in United States history. He resigned on August 8, 1974.
Nixon's favorite sport was football.
He parted his hair to the right to hide a large scar resulting from a childhood accident.
Nixon suffered from motion sickness and hay fever.
Lost to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election.
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