In 1972, the US president Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat. made a historic visit to China. On her second day in the country, Pat went to the Beijing Zoo to see pandas. At a dinner before they left China, Premier Zhou Enlai told Pat that Chin a would present the US with two pandas...
Married to Spiro T. Agnew, who served under Richard M. Nixon,Judy Agnew kept out of politics. In...Martin, Douglas
Just before Gheorghiu-Dej died of cancer in 1965, he tapped Ceausescu as his successor. President Ceausescu As Romania's supreme ruler, Ceausescu sought closer ties to the West. He welcomed newly elected President Richard Nixon in 1969 and traveled extensively. He also fostered more agricultural ...
In 1972, Biden filed a nomination to contest the Senate elections from Delaware after J. Caleb Boggs, a Republican, had expressed his desire to retire as a senator. However, Boggs later decided to run for the elections on President Richard Nixon’s insistence. When Biden started his election ...
In 1971 he went to Havana, Cuba, at the request of U.S. president Richard Nixon (1911–1994) to obtain the release of crewmen of two American ships seized by Fidel Castro's (1927–) government. At this time Noriega was already involved in drug deals. A high-ranking drug enforcement ...
But it would be no easy walk to win the White House against the Republican candidate, Vice President Richard Nixon (1913–1994). At that time, Kennedy was a controversial candidate because he was a Roman Catholic. Religious prejudice, or dislike of a person based solely upon his or her ...
Nevertheless, the campaign was doomed. Democratic rival and then-Sen. George McGovern won the nomination, and lost the general election to incumbent Republican President Richard M. Nixon. Ironically, tears visibly streamed down the face of President Bush during a 1999 CNN interview when the then...
When he graduated, he topped in his class at the San Francisco College of Law. While holding the office of California Secretary of State (1971 – 1975), he discovered the use of notorious documents by the then President Richard Nixon. ...
Friedan was among the founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League in 1969. Finally, in 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion. In 1970 President Richard Nixon (1913–1994) chose G. Harrold Carswell (1919–) to sit on the Supreme Court. Friedan made a strong stand against ...
After the Watergate incident, when Richard Nixon (1913–1994) stepped down as president rather than face criminal charges, this was what people wanted to hear. Carter was elected on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. With his running mate, Minnesota Democrat Walter ...