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WH Advent COMMS Dec 21st: Nixon 1969 → Trump 2020
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First Lady Patricia Nixon opened the White House in1969for the first Christmas Candlelight Tour. Anyone willing to brave the cold by waiting in line could enter the residence—no special invitation required. Electric lights were dimmed, in their placecandles and fireplaceslit the rooms while bands of the ==Armed Forces= played holiday tunes throughout the halls.
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Did some digging on Prez Nixon in ’69. Moar anon learns of Nixon, moar anon is impressed. No wonder DS had to take him down via Watergate.
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President Nixon declared in his inaugural address, "The greatest honor that history can bestow isthe title of peacemaker."The Nixon Administration initiates Détente.
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February 13 – President Nixon promises the federal government's aid in American city problems though insistsassistance from the local governmentis the common problem solver forinner city issues
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March 26 – President Nixon keeps his promise from the previous day and asks Congress for a year long 10% surtax and vows he will makemajor federal spending cuts to double the surplusof the budget.
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April 8 – President Nixon issues a statement declaring his intent to use over 200 million inrebuilding riot torn cities.
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June 3 – President Nixon appears on the campus of General Beadle State College …, sayingthe US has the power to crush revolutionaries,whom he defines as youngsters choosing to not partake in the process giving continuity to civilization.
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June 28 – The White House announces President Nixon's plan to attend theApollo 11splashdown
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June 29 – … plans by the Nixon administration onlimiting doctors' feesin Medicaid aid cases the following day