This article states: was feeling sick, having recently injured his knee while campaigning while the article U.S. presidential election, 1960 states: because he injured his knee on the way to the studio Anyone want to clear up this inconsistancy? --130.184.31.21 21:25, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

An event mentioned in this article is an August 9 selected anniversary

ok, what about the china thing? that is huge! and the gold standard. that is huge too. and the EPA?

yeah vietnam was horrible, but really, how come it gets 50% of the article text while these equally earth shattering (especially china) events get 1 line?

"The year 1977 saw the publishing of a book by Victor Lasky called It Didn't Start With Watergate. The book came to Nixon's defense pointing out that Presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson used wiretaps and engaged in many of the activities Nixon was accused of, but were never pursued by the press or the subject of impeachment hearings." It seems to me that this is out of place as being in the timeline with Nixon's death; but moreover, goes out of bounds of NPOV with Lasky being a known conservative of the period. Maybe this should go under media portrayals or not even be included at all??

I'm not a cheerleader for Nixon, but can someone explain the relevance of this quote: "His mother was a devout Quaker and a wonderful parent. But his father, Frank Nixon, was a slightly paranoid, bitter man, and Richard took more after his father." Could we have a reference for this statement? Since when are the words "Quaker" and "paranoid" antonyms?

I stand by my statement that Nixon's mother was a devout Quaker and wonderful parent; that Nixon's father was slightly paranoid and bitter, and that Nixon took more after his father.

True, "Quaker" and "paranoid" are not antonyms, but "devout Quakers" are very rarely paranoid, as the religion places a heavy emphasis on trust and love of all people, and paranoids are very rarely able to make that commitment.

You asked for sources. "In Search of Nixon," a respected work by Bruce Mazlish, makes clear that Hannah Nixon was devout and that Richard felt close to her as a boy; that Frank was somewhat bitter and that Richard felt more distant from him.

Nixon's 1968 speech to the Republican Convention was also revealing. He spoke of himself. "I see another child....he is helped on his journey through life. A father who had to go to work before he finished the sixth grade, sacrificed everything so that his sons could go to college. A gentle Quaker mother, with a passionate concern for peace."

Fathers who sacrifice EVERYTHING are often bitter, and it's revealing that he spoke of his father in terms of total sacrifice, his mother in terms of gentility and peace.

That Nixon took more after his father than mother is abundantly clear by his angry and paranoid behavior around the Watergate scandal that drove him from office.

Your statement is still too conclusory to be appropriate for an "encyclopedia," even though I AGREE with it. And of course YOU stand by YOUR statement. That's not the point. Please read about Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. Thank you. --Anon.

Besides, the author of this section cites a book (Mazlish) that says Nixon felt "distant" from his dad. Doesn't that contradict the author's own point here that he "took after" his dad?

According to biographer John Doe, Nixon had a "wonderful parent" . . . (please change article like this).

And what's the social security number doing here? Isn't that private, like his wife's bra size (unless she's a fashion model)?

Richard Nixon grew up in the Quaker EVANGELICAL CHURCH, not the classic Religious Society of Friends which holds unprogrammed meetings and believes in pacifism.

A Republican and a Democrat are discussing Nixon.

REPUBLICAN: Nixon was an unimpeachable character.

DEMOCRAT: Pardon?

On January 5, 1972 Nixon ordered the development of a space shuttle program that would eventually lead to Neil Armstrong's historic step on the moon in 1969.

What has it got to do with the Apollo program? Nixon approved the shuttle program after Apollo 11, how could it lead to Apollo 11? whkoh 10:36, Aug 10, 2003 (UTC)

I yield to no man in my detestation for that loathesome, slimy, dishonest, crooked, Red-baiting, creepy, pompous, self-inflated, cold, calculating, lying, tape-erasing, unindicted-co-conspiring son-of-a-bitch, Richard M. Nixon.

Nevertheless, I think including "Tricky Dick" in the "nicknames" section is inappropriate and not NPOV.

Some might even regard it as a cheap shot.

There could be something about this in the article itself (if there isn't already), to the effect that his detractors used this as a nickname for him.

I'm not going to remove this myself without discussion, but I don't think it belongs. (Do the other Presidential bios include the names by which Presidential enemies referred to them?)

Dpbsmith 21:20, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Before you call Nixon names, take look at the facts. In these past 30 years, no one has produced any direct evidence linking Richard Nixon to the actual burglary on 6/17/72. People have tried and they all failed. Congress in 1973 didn't have anything so they charged Nixon with one thing and that was him trying to coverup the stupid mistakes of people like G. Gordan Liddy. Also the coverup tapes were from the White House Taping System which Nixon installed himself! Richard Nixon brought justice upon Richard Nixon when nobody else could. In my opinion he remained an honorable man by doing that. --Secret Agent Man 06:07, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Nixon was being called "Tricky Dick" well before Watergate. At any rate, the point is not whether you agree with the implications of the slam, but whether it's notable enough to be reported. I deleted "Shrub" from the George W. Bush article, because even though it's been published it's not all that common, but "Tricky Dick" was much more widespread. JamesMLane 06:42, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The nickname seems universal enough that it should be mentioned. Even I knoew he was called that, and I was ten years old and on a different continent during Watergate. But I don't think it should be in the table - otherwise someone will add a few dozen Bush nicknames and claim equal treatment. DJ Clayworth 21:32, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I see that currently Bill Clinton's table does list "Slick Willie." However, Franklin D. Roosevelt is just "FDR" (not "That... man in the White House").

If we're really going to have this stuff in the table, I think there should be separate entries for "Nicknames (used by supporters)" and "Nicknames (used by detractors)".

Dpbsmith 21:44, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ok, I've moved "Tricky Dick" out of the main table. I didn't have any very good ideas where to put it;, I created a section on "Nixon in Popular Culture," please rearrange if you have better ideas. I'd love to do a section on how comedians parodied his ill-at-ease manner, etc. but I have a vague feeling that might not be really NPOV. Dpbsmith 13:28, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'm not the worlds greatest expert here, but I thought Nixon was called 'Tricky Dicky'. DJ Clayworth 14:32, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'd always heard "Tricky Dick," never "Tricky Dicky," and "Tricky Dick" was what someone had entered in the main table as nickname, so "Tricky Dick" was what I moved.

Google search on 'Nixon "Tricky Dick"' Results 1 - 100 of about 6,590 Google search on 'Nixon "Tricky Dicky"' Results 1 - 100 of about 1,050

No doubt both have been used.

Since I never heard it myself, I'm not going to add it. I'm confident that the statement that he was called "Tricky Dick" is NPOV and solid enough to put in an "encyclopedia."

If you're certain you've heard "Tricky Dicky" yourself and that it was in general use--or if you have any sort of external authority for its use--by all means, add it.

Really wild guess: could it be that "Tricky Dick" was prevalent during his lifetime and that "Tricky Dicky" has evolved subsequently?

He was also sometimes referred to disparagingly by his unusual middle name, "Milhous", most noticeably as the a documentary by what's-his-name? in which it was deliberately misspelled as "Millhouse."

"Dick" or "Dick Nixon" was his legitimate nickname.

Actually I need to be really careful personally about doing any editing here as my loathing for Nixon makes it really, really, really hard for me to achieve anything resembling an NPOV. I don't think I'm going to do anything more to this page. I'd certainly love to make some subtle defacements--such as replacing his dignified portrait with a picture of him in his characteristically geeky "victory" stance with both arms raised in a "V" and a "V" formed with two fingers of each hand...

Dpbsmith 15:45, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I removed the following from the article: However, this is doubtful, as the evangelical sect of Quakerism known as Friends Churches, having been largely organized by itinerant Methodists, bore little resemblance to the traditional 'unprogrammed' Quaker religion, with its silent worship, avoidance of paid clergy, and strict adherence to pacifism.

This followed this sentence which remains: His upbringing is said to have been marked by such conservative Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing, and swearing.

Basically, this is a misunderstanding of a couple of things. Evangelical Friends (who are the majority of Quakers in the Western U.S.) are still fairly conservative by modern standards, and the description of them eschewing drinking, etc. is very accurate for a century ago. The unprogrammed meeting more common in the East are not "conservative" in those senses, and I think whoever originally added that was conflating older Quaker practices such as plain speech and dress with things like not drinking and swearing. BCorr|Брайен 05:16, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)

The article link to Nixon's wife is entitled "Pat Nixon", not "Patricia Nixon"; just wanted to clean that up. And I don't see any reason to delete the Presidents table. If there's any questions, ask here. --65.73.0.137

Hold your horses, User:Kingturtle. Apparently, George W. Bush was planning on manned missions to Mars and so was Russia. Why undo my edit? --65.73.0.137

Because nobody has actually walked on Mars yet. Meelar 17:31, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the social security number there? --Golbez 05:38, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No good reason. It's gone now. JamesMLane 18:35, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

According to this link at washingtonpost.com (and many others around the Internet), Nixon resigned on August 8th not the 9th. Sucks that it was the featured event on aug 9...

Richard Nixon delivered an address to the nation on the evening of Thursday, August 8th, 1974, declaring he would resign the next day. For the text of his remarks, from the official Public Papers of the Presidents series see http://www.nixonlibrary.org/Research_Center/1974_pdf_files/1974_0244.pdf

The next morning after making farewell remarks to the White House staff at 9:36 A.M., he took a helicopter that took him to Andrews A.F.B., and there boarded Air Force One to return to his home in California. While Nixon was airborne over southern Illinois, White House Chief of Staff General Alexander Meigs Haig Junior presented, in accordance with Title Three of the U.S. Code, the resignation letter to the Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger, in his White House office. That was at 11:35 A.M. At noon on the ninth, the resignation took effect and Chief Justice Burger swore in Ford in the East Room of the White House. At that moment, Nixon was 39,000 feet over Jefferson City, Missouri. The pilot of Air Force One then radioed in to change the plane's call sign from "Air Force One" to "SAM 26000" as the plane no longer carried the president.

For the resignation letter (all eleven words of it) see http://www.nixonlibrary.org/Research_Center/1974_pdf_files/1974_0246.pdf

PedanticallySpeaking 13:25, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

207.whatever's Aug 20 entry needs work, and I don't know where to begin. Nuke it? Wiki it? Is it redundant? We need that nice administration table here. --Golbez 14:16, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Working on a "nice administration table".AlistairMcMillan 17:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Submitted. AlistairMcMillan 17:29, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tricky Dick was not coined by Helen Gaghan Douglas. It was coined in the spring of 1950 by a small newspaper Independent Review. It did not catch on until late September when the paper used it again in an editorial and it was subsequently adopted by Douglas supporters.

Source : The Arrogance of Power by Anthony Summers - Chapter 9 Note 2 P494

This section needs work. There should be some mention of the fact, for example, that Blackmun was Nixon's third choice for that seat, the name to which he resorted only after the defeat of both Haynsworth and Carswell in the Senate. I don't have time right now, but leave this as a marker in case someone else has a chance.

The Richard Nixon article mentions he was in Dallas, Texas the day John F. Kennedy was killed, speaking to the Coca-Cola Bottlers covention. I thought it was the Pepsi bottlers--can anyone confirm? PedanticallySpeaking 16:48, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Wasn't he on the grassy knol-- um, nevermind. ;-) func(talk) 05:17, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yes, yes, yes. I've just looked throughly into this, it was Pepsi, not Coke. I'll change it in the article. func(talk) 15:32, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Can you write up a proper reference and cite that point please? Thanks - Taxman 20:43, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

There are hundreds of sites connecting Nixon to a Pepsi-related meeting in Dallas. Now admittedly, many of these sites have a credibility problem, in that they are conspiracy-related, (the whole JFK thing). However, many of these sites have the same supposed direct quote from Nixon:

I attended the Pepsi Cola convention [ in Dallas ]and left on Friday morning. November 22, from Love Field. Dallas, on a flight back to New York , . . . on arrival in New York we caught a cab and headed for the city the cabbie missed a turn somewhere and we were off the highway . . . a woman came out of her house screaming and crying. I rolled down the cab window to ask what the matter was and when she saw my face she turned even paler. She told me that John Kennedy had just been shot in Dallas,"

Nixon is said to have made the above quote in a November 1973 issue of Esquire magazine.

Nixon appearently had a very good relationship with Pepsi because of the "kitchen debate (at pepsi, it seems that Nixon and Khrushchev shared a Pepsi together, or something), and it seems that Nixon was a representive for Pepsi's law firm, given as "Mudge, Rose, Nixon et al".

Here are some sources with better credibility:

Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031120-121736-4309r.htm

Paul Kangas essay: http://www.sumeria.net/politics/kennedy.html

As far as proper citing goes, I'm afraid I have been out of school too long to remember the appropriate APA or The Chicago Manual of Style bibliographic formats. ;-)

func(talk) 21:36, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

What the...? Why don't we have an article on Paul Kangas??? func(talk) 21:38, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Nixon was Vice President at the time of the "Kitchen Debate" in 1958. Jonathan Aitken writes in Nixon: A Life (Washington: Regnery, 1993) at p. 262 that "Don Kendall became a lifelong Nixon friend and financial backer. He was on the verge of being fired from his job of President of Pepsi Cola International . . . for having wasted too much money and time on Pepsi's investment in the Moscow exhibitionion. However, after Nixon and Krushchev had been photographed drinking Pepsi together on the stand, the corporation's directors were so delighted with the impact on their sales (their advertising slogan 'Be Sociable, Have a Pepsi' was given the twist 'Krushchev Learns to Be Sociable') that Kendall survived and was eventually promoted to the chairmanship of Pepsico. He liked to say, 'I owe my career to Nixon and the Kitchen Debate.' " I read somewhere years ago that Coke was shut out of the Soviet Union for decades, but Pepsi was available because Kruschev had liked it.
  After losing the 1962 election, Nixon moved to New York City and joined the Mudge, Stern, Baldwin, and Todd law firm, which was renamed Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander. Don Kendall then steered Pepsi's legal business to Nixon, Mudge.
  Had I bothered to check Nixon's own memoirs RN (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978) I would have found it was a Pepsi board of directors meeting he was attending in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Nixon writes (p. 252) "Early on the morning of November 22 on the way to the Dallas airport I aw the flags displayed along the motorcade route for the presidential visit. Arriving in New York, I hailed a cab home. We drove through Queens toward the 59th Street Bridge, and as we stopped at a traffic light, a man rushed over from the curb and started talking to the driver. I heard him say, 'Do you have a radio in your cab? I jhust heard that Kennedy was shot.' We had no radio, and as we continued into Manhattan a hundred thoughts rushed through my mind. The man could have been crazy or a macabre prankster. He could have been mistaken about what he heard; or perhaps a gunman might have shot at Kenneddy but missed or only wounded him. I refused to believe that he could have been killed.
  "As the cab drew up in front of my building, the doorman ran out. Tears were streaming down his cheeks. 'Oh, Mr. Nixon, have you heard, sir?' he asked. 'It's just terrible. They've killed President Kennedy.' " Nixon lived at 810 Fifth Avenue and when he called J. Edgar Hoover that afternoon, Hoover say "it was a Communist" who had done it.
  Thanks, Func, for your help. PedanticallySpeaking 16:08, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Why is there no mention of Nixon's relationship with Dr Arnold Hutschnecker who he saw from fall 1951 to his death and who in a rare public appearance accompanied him to Pat's funeral.

I want to start off by saying that I am not a Nixon scholar by any means but I noticed some things I would like to bring up. Didn't Nixon bomb Laos in addition to Cambodia. And my understanding was that these bombing were kept secret from congress as well as the American people. Plus, the article puts quotes around the word "secret" when describing this deception, as if to say "some people consider this lie to the American people a 'secret'". It seems like an unambigues secret to me. At least the article should expain why it is a "secret" and not a secret. I would have corrected these things but like I said, I don't know enough about Nixon to be so bold. JesseHogan 04:22, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The main picture in the article is wrong. It is currently one of Dick Cheney, not Richard Nixon. And I cant find why the page is doing this in the page edit section. If anyone can correct, please do. tiepilottillard 20:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I eliminated the quotes contributed by User:202.156.2.138. I'm assuming they may have come from the White House Tapes but no sources were cited, that alone is cause enough for removal.

Even if some of these quotes are on the tape I hardly consider them quotations. It is well known the tapes contain a lot of inflammatory and nasty comments and are about the furthest thing from politically correct. That has been established. I think picking out some zingers to include as quotations adds nothing to the accuracy of the article in any way though I'm certainly willing to listen to other opinions on it.

This user has a history of adding items that get reverted due to their nature and most of his/her contributions have been on characters from the Smurfs as opposed to some meaningful work on Nixon or other presidents.

--Wgfinley 08:06, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree with you said regarding the need for citations and the validity of considering them notable quotations. However,

I would not like to see (cited) quotations from the tape disappear from the article. They offer a candid glimps into the well known irrational, paranoid, and anti-Semitic side of Nixon. Instead of putting these into the Quotation section, perhaps there should be a section detailing the tapes themselves, giving a general understanding of what was said on the tapes, and what people have surmized from the contents of the tapes in regard to Nixons character and so forth.JesseHogan 18:39, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Regardless of what quotes are or are not included, I do think we need a separate article on the Nixon tapes, which I do not believe we have. They are certainly important and encyclopedic. -R. fiend 18:48, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree that a tapes entry is likely the way to go. I just thought it was important to make a distinction from a real quotation (inferring "public") and something that was taped and thought to be private. It doesn't excuse it, just needs to be put in the proper context. --Wgfinley 04:23, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I reverted some edits that a new Wikipedia author made, they were far afield from NPOV. I think whether the bombings were illegal or not is a matter of debate. Be that as it may, the article makes it more than clear that the runs on Cambodia were kept from the Congress and the public.

I also think the editor deliberately tried to hide his edits by marking them as "minor". Sorry, substituting "murdered" for "killed" and calling the bombings illegal is not a minor edit! --Wgfinley 04:25, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I made a mistake in my comment about my edit, however is there any policy about full names ? See George W. Bush Ericd 05:31, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

General style guidelines indicate once you use a person's full name in an article you don't have to use it again for readability. Of course, there are exceptions (for instance, if you were discussing George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush in the same article it would only make sense to be more specific). --Wgfinley 05:42, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

the madness never ends.

Quotes mentioned should be in {{wikiquotes}} not here.  =Nichalp (talk · contribs)= 14:20, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

• Text of press conference [1], extracted version [2].

• From Facts on File 1973 Volume 33, No. 1719 Oct. 7-13, 1973, pg. 854,

"The White Hous refused to confirm or deny an Oct. 3 report in the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin that President and Mrs. Nixon paid on $792.81 in federal income taxes for 1970 and $878.03 in 1971"

• From Facts on File 1973 Volume 33, No. 1725 Nov. 18-24, 1973, pg. 964,

"The President made the declaration in discussing his persoanl finances. The Presidnet was asked about a press report he paid $792 in federal inbcome tax in 1970 and $878 in 1971 and whether public officials should disclose their personal finances."

• "New York Times article by R. W. Apple, November 17, 1973[3]

The Providence Journal-Bulletin came into possession of detailed information regarding the Presidents tax returns for 1970 and 1971, then published the information. This information came from the IRS, which is required by law to keep all filings confidential. Jack White is the reporter for the Providence Journal-Bulletin who wrote the story. At the time of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association press conference, disclosure laws of public officials were not what they are today. Also, Nixon was not the subject of a Congressional investigation regarding his personal finances. An outside group had requested the IRS to audit Nixon's return in July of 1973, regarding a deduction Nixon took for the donation of his Vice Presidential Papers, which the Supreme Court later ruled on. There was no allegation anywhere in the Watergate proceedings that Nixon somehow ever personally profitted or benefitted from the Watergate breakin. The "I am not a crook" quote has absolutley no baring on the Watergate breakin, or any Watergate investigations.

Nobs01 6 July 2005 18:28 (UTC)

You'll want to restore this from history, someone's editted it and inserted fallacious information and some really silly quotes.

Why is there no mention of voter fraud on the part of JFK in the 1960 election? Even if you don't believe it (and you are probably alone in the world if you do not) there have certainly been enough allegations to promt an entry about them.

Questions on this wording: "he held up members of a Politcal Action Committee (PAC) that Vooris received substantial campaign donations from"; (1) shouldn't this read "he held up a list of members" (2) what evidence is there for the use of the term "PAC" in 1946. Thank you. Nobs 14:32, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What is the reason that Nixon is in the Scottish-American category? I cannot find anything in the article that suggests that he belongs in this category. --Colin Angus Mackay 14:16, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]