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Definition of Richard Nixon

1. Noun. Vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994).

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Literary usage of Richard Nixon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences, Semi-historic, of Pioneer Life by Joseph S. Williams (1873)
"The first court was organized and held at the house of Colonel Richard Nixon, on the eighth of March, 1824, by Richard Nixon, Laurence McGuire, ..."

2. Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences, Semi-historic, of Pioneer Life by Joseph S. Williams (1873)
"Richard Nixon, L. Mc- Guire, Nicholas T. Perkins; the Sanders, Taylors, Bradfords, Bonds, Estes, and many others, whose brave hearts and inflexible will ..."

3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1884)
"... seem to me very satisfactory evidence that George and Susan Nixon were the parents of Richard Nixon, the father of Colonel John Nixon. ..."

4. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario High Court of Justice, Ontario, High Court of Justice (1885)
"... wood annually prepared for the stove, the cow to be kept for her use free of expense winter and summer by testator's son Richard Nixon, also the fuel, ..."

5. Minutes of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia: 1704-1776 by Philadelphia (Pa.) Councils. Common Council (1847)
"... and were desired at the same time to View a Wharfe Intended to be Erected at the Cost of Richard Nixon, at the End of Pine Street, the persons Appointed ..."

6. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"Richard Nixon, Public Papers of the President, 1971 (Washington: ... Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), p. ..."

7. Turbulent Times by Allan H. Keith (2002)
"In 1966 a lot of people thought ft unlikely that Richard Nixon would ever become President. After all, he had been defeated for President in 1960 and then ..."

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