U.S. President History
1969 - U.S. President Nixon threw a 70th birthday party for Duke Ellington. During the event, Nixon presented the Medal of Freedom to Ellington.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.
| "An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins." - Dwight David Eisenhower |