Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon
Background information
Born	Richard Milhous Nixon January 9, 1913 Yorba Linda, California, United States
Died	April 22, 1994 (aged 81) New York City, New York, United States
Cause of death	Complications from a stroke
Nationality	American
Occupation	Politician 37th President of the United States
Family information
Spouse	Pat Nixon (1940-1993; her death)
Children	Tricia Julie

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was first elected president in 1968 and re-elected in 1972. He previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. He became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.

History

• Nixon and his family visited Disneyland on August 11, 1955. In addition to partaking of the attractions, he was given the key to Disneyland.
• As Vice President, Nixon and his family helped dedicate the Disneyland Monorail System as part of Disneyland's 1959 expansion, and appear in the television special Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 and featurette: Gala Day at Disneyland.
• On March 25, 1969, Nixon presented Lillian Disney with the Walt Disney Commemorative Medal, minted in honor of Walt Disney.
• In 1969, The Disneyland Golden Horseshoe Revue performed for the Nixon administration at the White House Correspondents' Association upon his request.
• On November 17, 1973, the Contemporary Resort was the site of what would become one of the most famous press conference statements in modern American politics, where Nixon declared "I'm not a crook." He, whose job approval rating had been declining steadily for over a year due to the on-going Watergate scandal, made the statement during an appearance at the Associated Press Managing Editors Association annual convention, at which he held a live one-hour televised press conference. Following an earlier question on his taxes, he addressed claims that he profited from his public service, stating "I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice ...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." Less than one year later, facing almost certain impeachment and removal from office, he announced his resignation on August 8, 1974, which became effective the following day.
• Nixon's likeness served as the visual inspiration for the design of Principal Mazur from 1995's A Goofy Movie.
• Nixon's daughters: Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who were at the opening of the Disneyland monorail with their father, wrote the foreword for the 2020 book The Disney Monorail.

Portrayals

• An animatronic version of Nixon, as well as the other U.S. presidents, is part of the Hall of Presidents.
• In The Million Dollar Duck, Rutledge of the Treasury Department receives a call from President Nixon ordering him, "Get that duck. Do you understand? Get that duck!"
• Nixon was the subject of the 1995 film Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins.
• A wax figure of Nixon appears in the 2012 Gravity Falls episode "Headhunters".

Gallery

Walt Disney with Richard Nixon and his family cutting the ribbon for the Disneyland Monorail System

Richard Nixon and kids on Peter Pan's Flight

Key to Disneyland given to Nixon

Rocket to the Moon Lunar Flight Certificate given to Nixon on August 11, 1955

Richard Nixon and his grandson meeting Dreamfinder and Figment

Portrayals

"The President" in The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

Outtake of Genie impersonating Nixon

Anthony Hopkins as Nixon in Nixon (1995)

Videos

1959 Monorail Dedication

References

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This page uses content from the English Wikipedia page Disney's Contemporary Resort. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. Text from Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

External links

• Photos: The Nixons at Disneyland
• Richard Nixon in Disney A to Z at D23, The Official Disney Fan Club
• Richard Nixon on Wikipedia
• Richard Nixon on IMDb