#Richard Nixon White House

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Larry Hogan: U.S. Representative Larry Hogan SR. Watergate Committee Statement

Source:Larry Hogan showing his father U.S. Representative Larry Hogan SR. (Republican, Maryland) statement to the House Judiciary Committee, arguing in favor of the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon (Republican, California) Source:The New Democrat “Congressman Larry Hogan, Sr. of Maryland’s 5th Congressional District was the first and only Republican to vote for all three articles of…

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Elvis Presley arrives unannounced at the gate of the White House.  He is there to see President Nixon and he is ready to sign up as a federal agent to combat drugs.  It’s December 21, 1970.

What happens next?  A Nixon Aide took these notes:

“The meeting opened with pictures taken of the President and Elvis Presley. Presley immediately began showing the President his law enforcement paraphernalia including badges from police departments in California, Colorado and Tennessee… The President mentioned that he thought Presley could reach young people, and that it was important for Presley to retain his credibility.  Presley responded that he did his thing by ‘just singing.’  He said that he could not get to the kids if he made a speech on the stage, that he had to reach them in his own way.  The President nodded in agreement… Presley indicated to the President in an very emotional manner that he was ‘on your side.’”  Read More

No video was taken of the President meeting The King, but here’s a sequence put together from the White House contact sheets. 

From the Nixon Library - Elvis in the Oval Office

The image of the President and Presley shaking hands is the most requested image in the holdings of the National Archives. Source: research.archives.gov

[deadpresidents]

At a time when success in the Presidency was defined by not being Richard Nixon, journalists put their usual skepticism on hold to celebrate "Grand Rapids homespun...a man who toasted his own English muffins for breakfast" -- a custom, it must be said, born less of Trumanesque simplicity than of Betty Ford's lifelong aversion to rising early ("I can't imagine anything worse than starting off the day with conversation"). "An unabashed lowbrow," according to Newsweek, [Gerald] Ford read the sports page before the rest of the paper. His personal tastes ran to double-knit suits, the Dallas Cowboys, Edgeworth pipe tobacco and bourbon and water. He addressed visitors as "sir" and took copious notes while conversing with Oval Office visitors. A reporter trailing Ford watched as Marines standing outside the West Wing snapped to attention at his approach. One of them opened the door and stood wordlessly by the threshold.

"Hi, I am Jerry Ford," said the President, extending his hand in friendly greeting. "I am going to be living here. What is your name?"

-- Richard Norton Smith, on the dramatic differences in the personalities of Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon and immediate change of atmosphere around the White House following Nixon's resignation, as recounted in Smith's An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

[viciousvampirevillain]

Guys, shits been heating up in the White House… Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton allegedly hooked up.

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[here-a-lee-there-a-lee]

found a jackpot of images when 1776 performed at the white house on feb. 22, 1970

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President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon with Actresses Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, on February 25, 1973. 

Collection RN-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection (Nixon Administration)

Series: Nixon White House Photographs

Image description: In a reception area of the White House, the Nixons, Debbie Reynolds, and Carrie Fisher stand and smile for a photo. Ms. Reynolds is wearing a dark plaid trench coat over a dark skirt or dress; President Nixon is wearing a dark suit with a rosette-patterned necktie. He has his arm around Ms. Reynolds. Ms. Fisher is wearing a dark dress with a white lace collar and cuffs. Mrs. Nixon is wearing a light striped skirt suit.

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[rayvlil]

We were watching "White House Plumbers" on HBO and my husband who never had any interest in US politics till recently; and apparently never knew much of Nixon other then he was a president turned to me and said "so, Republicans have always been this way?" And I laughed.

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The White House Transcripts compiled by the New York Times.

[thenewdemocratus]

Frost/Nixon The Complete Interviews: Foreign Policy

The real genius of the Nixon Presidency was the foreign policy. President Nixon and his National Security Director, could simply see things happening twenty-years in advance. I don’t believe we’ve ever had two people that high up in the U.S. Government that knew so much about foreign policy and national security than Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. But President George H.W. Bush and his…

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I’ll cash my chips, then!

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Volcanoes

It was the crowning moment in Richard Milhous Nixon’s long career of political ups-and-downs. For the fifth time, Nixon had been a candidate on the national ticket (twice as Vice President, three times as President). In 1952 and 1956, the focus was on the top of the ticket, Nixon’s running mate, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960, Nixon narrowly lost to – and some would say was the victim of electoral theft from – John F. Kennedy. In 1968, Nixon finally won election to the Presidency, but he did so with some bitterness:  the country was in shambles and the two people he wanted to oppose more than anyone else in the election – Lyndon B. Johnson and Bobby Kennedy – had respectively quit and been murdered during the turbulent campaign. Not only that, but in victory, Nixon had garnered only 43.4% of the vote – a full 6 percentage points less than he had earned in his 1960 loss to JFK.

On November 7, 1972, however, Nixon’s “Silent Majority” spoke loud and clear – and truly gave him both a majority victory and a strong mandate for his second term in the White House. Nixon trounced his opponent, Democratic Senator George S. McGovern, on election night. His popular vote victory was 61%-38% and Nixon’s margin in the Electoral College was even larger, 520-17. Nixon won every single state in the country except for Massachusetts. Nixon even won McGovern’s home state of South Dakota.

As the election returns rolled in and Nixon’s family, supporters, and staff celebrated, the man who had received the votes of 47,169,841 of his fellow Americans that day to be their President noted that he felt “a curious feeling, perhaps a foreboding, that muted my enjoyment of this triumphal moment." In his Memoirs (BOOK | KINDLE), Richard Nixon elaborated further, "I am at a loss to explain the melancholy that settled over me on that victorious night…To some extent the marring effects of Watergate may have played a part, to some extent our failure to win Congress, and to a greater extent the fact that we had not yet been able to end the war in Vietnam. Or perhaps it was because this would be my last campaign. Whatever the reasons, I allowed myself only a few minutes to reflect on the past. I was confident that a new era was about to begin, and I was eager to begin it.”

The new era began the next morning. At 12:00 PM on November 8, 1972, President Nixon gathered his Cabinet in the White House. Nixon seemed tired and was suffering from a painful toothache. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger noted that the President seemed “grim and remote”. Nixon’s loyal Chief of Staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman was at his side as the President nonchalantly thanked his Cabinet and then described his recent readings about 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and how Disraeli described a need to refresh the British government and rid it of the “exhausted volcanoes” in William Gladstone’s Cabinet. Nixon’s Cabinet was perplexed and curious as to where the President was headed. He had just won a historic landslide victory in the Presidential election, but he spoke as if he had lost everything. 

After a few more minutes of talking about his plans for a second term that wasn’t “lethargic” such as those of some of his predecessors, Nixon simply stood up and walked out of the Cabinet Room, headed across the South Lawn, boarded Marine One and flew to his Camp David retreat. When the President stands, everyone stands but as soon as he left the room, the Cabinet sat down and looked at Bob Haldeman, who took over the meeting. Haldeman handed pieces of paper out to the Cabinet and said, “You’re all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes”. Then he immediately demanded everyone’s resignation. Nixon had won one of the biggest victories in American electoral history, and 24 hours later, he was basically firing everyone who had helped him to do so – earlier in the day, he had done the same thing that he did to the Cabinet to his White House staff.

Henry Kissinger summed it up by saying that, “It was as if victory was not an occasion for reconciliation but an opportunity to settle the scores of a lifetime." For Richard Nixon, victory was never enough. He needed destruction. Nixon got rid of his exhausted volcanoes, but he was sitting on top of another volcano named Watergate. His abbreviated second term, which had been won the night before, would end less than two years later in his own personal and professional destruction.

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Circa 1970: American singer and actor Elvis Aron Presley meets the 37th president of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon.

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Part 3 final

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Uhhh. I dunno, mista White. Don’t ya think that uh, working with the Crescent King is sort of a crazy move. Like, ignoring the house in the sea stuff, or whatever, he doesn’t seem like he’s in the best place mentally right now yunno.

Jesse, when I asked you if you wanted to expand the business, you said yes. The Crescent King has incredibly valuable connections from Florida to the Moon. Lydia has informed me that our product is in high demand among the Lunarians, it’s just the most logical next step in our operation. So will you trust me or will we go with one of your picks again? Remember Tuco? Hm? If you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.

3 Cycles Later…

JESSE.. JESSE. Grief made him a monster, Jesse… He DID NOT appreciate my Heisenberg Checkmate. We are in the SHITTER. The only way to destroy the Crescent King is to render him as fiction. God, where did we go so wrong? Jesse. I need you to talk to Nixon. We have bad history so it has to be you. Saul can pay for the NASA launch. Quick Jesse. My son can’t spell

honestly the funniest thing abt breaking bad is walter causing his own issues and then surprised abt it like jesse will be like yo mr white i don’t think working with the joker is a super good idea and walts like shut up jesse u idiot and then at the end of the season walt’s like jesse we have to kill the joker