Nixon Death 30 Years Later: Remembering Congress Reaction
It is my sad duty to inform you officially of the death of Richard Milhous Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States
Born in 1913, he was first elected to the Congress in 1946, a member of that historic freshman class of World War II veterans that also included John F. Kennedy. He was elected to the Senate in 1950, and served two terms as Vice President of the United States between 1953 and 1961. His career in the Congress coincided with the great expansion of the American middle class, when men and women from backgrounds as humble as his own secured the triumph of freedom…
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