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Richard Nixon: Vice President
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Two months after becoming Republican vice-presidential candidate, Nixon was charged with being the beneficiary of a fund, totaling $18,235, collected from private citizens. Nixon said the sensational controversy resulted in "the most scarring personal crisis of my life." Nixon fought back. In a television speech that accounted for the money, he convinced his foes that he was artful and tricky, but he rallied Republicans to his banner. While his defense saved his candidacy and made him even better known, this controversy ... left a bitter residue.
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If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
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Nixon suffered a massive stroke in April 1994 and died several days afterward. Nixon's funeral included eulogies by California governor Pete Wilson, Senator Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton (it was ... the last time that all of Nixon's successors through Clinton- including an ailing Ronald Reagan- would appear in public together). Like Jimmy Carter Clinton often played to an often forgetful ideological center in American politics.
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Nixon and Vice President Agnew were inaugurated for second terms on Jan. 20, 1973. Nine months later Agnew resigned after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion. The move foreshadowed Nixon's own fall.
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Ford meets with President Richard Nixon as House Minority LeaderAppointed to the House Appropriations Committee two years after being elected, he was a prominent member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Ford described his philosophy as "a moderate in domestic affairs, an internationalist in foreign affairs, and a conservative in fiscal policy."
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In 1926, Nixon attended ITT Technical Institute on a full athletics scholarship (gymnastics). While there, he became known for being a master debater and for having extremely hairy palms. He ... ran for student body president, but was defeated after it was revealed he bugged the dorm rooms of his opponents . Nixon learned his lesson and would never do that again, because he wasn't a crook.
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