Nixon, Richard

*		1913
†		1994

Beruf
US-American politician

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	Navy officer in World War II
	1946 Republican member of the House of Representatives
	1951 Senator from California
	Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower
	1960 defeated by John F. Kennedy in the presidential election
	1969-1974 37th President of the US
	1970/71 expands the Vietnam war to Laos and Cambodia
	1972 establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China
	1973 concludes a cease-fire agreement with North Vietnam
	1974 resigns because of the Watergate affair