6. Usually wore a dark blue suit?

7. Believed the moisture on his upper lip and the shadow of his beard cost him the presidency in 1960?

8. Addressed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on the radio during the first ever moon landing in 1969?

9. Got the nickname “Tricky Dick" from Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas when he beat her in the election to the Senate?

10. Established the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970?

11. Wrote the Clean Air Act of 1970?

12. Established the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973?

13. Gave a daily message to the media, a practice that has been adopted by all succeeding presidents?

14. Required government forced desegregation of schools?

15. Withdrew American troops from Vietnam while extending the war into Cambodia and Laos?

16. Brought Affirmative Action to the construction industry?

17. Formed a Presidential Task Force on Women's Rights?

18. Created the Department of Natural Resources?

19. Introduced a health insurance program to provide insurance for poor families and paid coverage for mental illness, drug abuse and alcoholism?

20. Supported a Family Assistance Plan guaranteeing a minimum income for poor families in 1969?

21. Was the first U.S. president to visit Communist China beginning a new relationship between the United States and the People's Republic in 1972?

22. Signed, with premier Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, the first agreements on nuclear weapons control in 1972?

23. Told members of his staff (known as the "Plumbers”) to investigate “leaks” of classified information?

24. Ordered a cover-up of the Plumbers’ illegal break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate building complex in Washington, D.C. leading to charges of violation of public trust, bribery, contempt of Congress and attempted obstruction of justice?

20. Was the first president ever to resign from office?

21. Claimed President Johnson set up the taping system in the White House to avoid having a secretary in every meeting and to ensure a record of every verbal agreement?

22. Was declared, by his doctor, unfit to give testimony in the Watergate trial?

23. Had 400,000,000 people watch his resignation speech?

24. Believed he let down our system of government and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now think it’s too corrupt?

25. Received $2,300,000 for his memoirs?

26. Was offered, by CBS, $300,000 for an interview with Mike Wallace?

27. Received $600,000 for his interview with David Frost?

28. Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld entered political service during Nixon’s tenure as President?

The answer to all of the questions is TRUE!

For more information on President Richard Nixon go to:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rn37.html
http://www.watergate.info/nixon
http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org
http://nixon.archives.gov
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/37_nixon/index.ht

Photo: Stephen Rowe as Swifty Lazar, Stacy Keach as Richard Nixon and Noel Velez as Manolo Sanchez