President Nixon had resigned, and Democrats were looking to make big gains in Congress.
As a result of Vietnam, the U.S. dismantled the draft in 1973 under President Nixon.
Henry Kissinger under President Nixon and John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower were modern titans.
Then President Nixon tapped Casey to head the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1971.
But in August, 1971, President Nixon terminated gold convertibility of the dollar, thereby abolishing Bretton Woods.
In 1972, incumbent President Nixon trounced McGovern, who won only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
This has been the currency rule since 1971, when President Nixon severed the dollar's link to gold.
It was Henry Kissinger, who received the prize in 1973 while serving as President Nixon's secretary of state.
Then in 1971, President Nixon took the United States off the gold standard.
As a young senator fighting for health care, he was offered a version of universal coverage by President Nixon.
This happened to America in the early 1970s, when President Nixon banned oilseed exports to keep down domestic prices.
He served two terms in Congress, representing the Houston area, and then President Nixon asked him to be RNC Chair.
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So it was on August 15th, 1971, that President Nixon radically changed the global monetary system by nixing the gold standard.
President Nixon gave us our fiat dollar on August 15, 1971, when he suspended convertibility of the U.S. dollar into gold.
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Just like the Democrats in 1974, they were trying to link all the Republicans to President Nixon and the Watergate scandal.
In 1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.
President Clinton is entitled to the same consideration and respect shown to President Nixon on that occasion -- no more and no less.
President Nixon resigned not because campaign aides plotted a burglary for political espionage but because the president himself directed an all-levels effort to conceal it.
President Nixon abrogated the Bretton Woods monetary system 40 years ago.
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During the Watergate hearings of 1974, President Nixon's counsel James St.
But then, President Nixon took the dollar off that fixed exchange rate system, and it's very hard to imagine how we could go back there now.
Indeed, since President Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, the U.S. price level has drifted upward, sometimes rapidly, eroding the purchasing power of the dollar.
The last President to do so was President Nixon, and he had sufficient reverence for the office to resign before the House even voted articles of impeachment.
President Nixon's attorneys general were John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst.
C. as a staffer on President Nixon's National Security Council.
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Which President Nixon had signed with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.
He also served under President Nixon as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and director of the Office of Management and Budget, and then secretary of health, education and welfare.
In the early 1970s similar dollar weakness led to food supply scares and then to a U.S. export embargo by President Nixon, against the advice of his own agriculture minister.
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