General Information:
- Richard M. Nixon was the thirty-seventh President of the nation with Spiro Agnew as his Vice President for his first term and Gerald Ford as his Vice President for his second term.
- Terms as President lasted from 1969 to 1974.
- Nixon had served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and had headed the Alger Hiss case, which established his reputation as a leading anti-communist.
- The presidential signing of the Postal Reorganization Act.
- The presidential signing of the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970.
- The establishment of the Earth Day.
- The establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- The presidential signing of the Wage-Price Controls Bill.
- The presidential signing of the Emergency Employment Act.
- The Watergate Scandal takes place.
- The signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
- The official resignation of Nixon.