Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was also the thirty-sixth Vice President (1953–1961) serving under Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is the only man to have been elected twice to the Vice Presidency and twice to the Presidency, and he was the fifth Republican President to be elected to two terms. Nixon is noted for his diplomatic foreign policy and moderate domestic policy, but he is also remembered as the first and only U.S. President to have ever resigned from office. His resignation came after a loss of support in Congress amidst impending impeachment proceedings related to the Watergate scandal.

Nixon in popular culture

Because of his place in American culture as a controversial President, Richard Nixon has appeared as a character (with varying degrees of verisimilitude), both major and minor, in a variety of fiction.

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• The Assassination of Richard Nixon
• The Cayman Triangle
• Dick
• Elvis Meets Nixon
• Forrest Gump
• Hot Shots! Part Deux
• Secret Honor
• The Simpsons
• Futurama, where Nixon's preserved head is elected President of Earth.
• Watchmen, set in an alternative reality in which Nixon is still President in the mid-1980s.
• The "alternative 1985" in Back to the Future Part II has Nixon as the long-serving President (newspaper states that he "seeks fifth term")
• Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song Ohio about the Kent State Massacre, attributes blame to Nixon.
• Neil Young's song Campaigner has a refrain discussing a place "where even Richard Nixon has got soul".
• "The Love of Richard Nixon" is a song by Manic Street Preachers.
• "Nixon's Spirit" is a song on Paul Oakenfold's album Bunkka, with vocals by Hunter S. Thompson.
• The Richard Nixon mask is a popular costuming item.