Biographies: Icons of history
Richard Nixon
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Twice elected vice-president under Eisenhower, Richard Nixon then lost the 1960 presidental election to John F. Kennedy. Nixon re-emerged and won the presidency in 1968 and again in 1972. His administration de-escalated the was in Vietnam and established relarltions will China. However, due to the Watergate scandalz he was the first president to ever resign from office.