[
US
/ˈnɪksən/
]
NOUN
- vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
How To Use Nixon In A Sentence
- Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
- President Nixon devalues the dollar, journeys to Peking and Moscow; the future remains unknown.
- Watching Nixon's henchmen come out of the woodwork to declare their moral indignation at the ethical lapses of Mark Felt was tantamount to watching Liza Minelli criticize someone else for being an an unstable boozehound.
- In 1972, Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship.
- Mr. FELDSTEIN: Well, one of the ironies is that the two men, Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson, had so much in common in their backgrounds, despite their mutual hatred. Nixon's Failed Attempts At 'Poisoning The Press'
- The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle
- The only time I felt provoked to send him a strong punchy letter was when he flew out on a secret mission to China, in the early 1970s, as Nixon's special messenger.
- Nixon blamed the "overzealousness" of a Highway Patrol unit and revealed that no one in his administration had reviewed the report before it was distributed to police statewide. PolicyBeta
- Haha, you silly twit, he won with 55 percent of the vote against Stefan's hero Toby Nixon, in a district that Nixon had carried twice before, a district that once elected Kathy Lambert and the never-to-be-forgotten Bill (Spanky) Backlund. Sound Politics: Urban Legends And Eric Oemig
- If Nixon had survived the "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate, how long would his enemies list have grown, and how emboldened would he have become in spying on political rivals? News industry's depression has spillover implications