January 30, 2007


Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson

Buying defense bonds
Means money lent
So they
Don't cost you
One red cent
Burma Shave 1942


I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Abraham Lincoln

Major Events of the Nixon Administration (1969)

• January 20 - Richard Milhous Nixon inaugurated President of the United States on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• January 23 - Establishes Council for Urban Affairs
• February 23-March 2 - Visits European capitals
• March 14 - Asks Congress to approve modified Antiballistic Missile (ABM) System
• March 17 - Orders secret bombing of Cambodia, commencing with "Operation Breakfast"
• May 13 - Delivers special message to Congress on reforming military draft
• May 14 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, resigns
• May 21 - Nominates Warren Burger as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• June 8 - Meets with Republic of Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island; announces troop reduction in Vietnam
• June 9 - By a vote of 74-3, Senate confirms nomination of Warren Burger as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• June 23 - Warren Burger takes the judicial oath as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• July 20 - Apollo 11 lands on the moon
• July 25 - Outlines what became known as the "Nixon Doctrine"
• July 26-August 2 - Meets with Asian leaders
• August 2-3 - Visits Romania
• August 8 - Proposes minimum family income
• August 13 - Proposes revenue sharing with states
• August 18 - Nominates Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
• October 15 - Vietnam Moratorium disturbances
• October 29 - Supreme Court orders school integration "at once"
• November 3 - Outlines the policy of "Vietnamization" and asks for the support of the "silent majority"
• November 21 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by a vote of 55 to 45
• November 24 - Signs Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty
• December 30 - Signs Tax Reform Act of 1969 and Defense Appropriation Act of 1970
  
  
  Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
  Jim Rohn
  
  
  
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  Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense. 1736
  
  
  

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