The Death of President Richard Nixon

A long and, at times, successful career is recapped.

Episode Transcript

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Remembering an ex president. We'll discussas we take a bite out of history
with Ingles Markets. Richard M.Nixon died on April twenty second in nineteen
ninety four, after a serious strokefour days earlier. The former president,
considered to be infamous by some,definitely left a complex legacy, best known
for his involvement in the Watergate scandaland his resignation that shortly followed. He
was an incredibly paranoid, trusted nearlyno one, and was said to be

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stand offish. He taped his OvalOffice meetings, tape conversations that would help
bring him down. It wasn't allbad, though. Nixon worked tirelessly to
improve relations with Russia. He alsohelped to create the EPA, the Clean
Water Act, and the Endangered SpeciesAct. He lowered the voting age to
eighteen, started Amtrak, started aspace shuttle program, and OSHA. In
the speech at Oxford in nineteen seventyeight, he admitted his mistakes as president,

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with thought time would tell a differentstory. He told the audience,
You'll be here in the year twothousand. See how I am regarded then.
Richard M. Nixon and his wifePats are both buried on the grounds
of the Richard Millhouse Nixon Presidential Library, and this has been a bite out
of history with Ingles Market sh