On This Day, Aug. 8: Nixon Announces Resignation on TV
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R50/ On August 9, 1974 the President of the United States Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment following the Watergate scandal. We re-proposed the ...
What happened in the world on a day like today? Check out the August 7 eventHow Fort Bliss is, the largest immigration detention center in the U.S. that is being built in TexasOn August 8, but in 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation, with effect the next day, after spying was discovered in the offices of the National Committee of the Democratic Party in Washington by White House officials, in the scandal known as Watergat…
On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced that he would resign from the U.S. president's office following the Watergate scandal. He was the first and only US President who resigned on his mandate before it was finished.
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