PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON - BOOK PLATE SIGNED - HFSID 40861

RICHARD NIXON
Richard Nixon signs a bookplate intended for placement in his Memoirs.
Bookplate signed: "Richard Nixon", 4x5. Imprinted above signature: "The Memoirs of/Richard Nixon/Personally Autographed/for". In 1978, four years after resigning the presidency, Richard Nixon published this book, in which he admits his involvement in the Watergate cover-up and discloses that he preserved the tapes that resulted in his resignation in an effort to protect himself from charges from aides that might testify against him. Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was elected 37th President of the United States in 1968 after representing California in the U.S. House of Representatives (1947-1951) and U.S. Senate (1951-1953) and serving two terms as Dwight D. Eisenhower's Vice President (1953-1961). He lost (1960), then won, extremely close Presidential elections (facing John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, respectively), then won re-election by a landslide against George McGovern in 1972. Nixon's re-election triumph rapidly turned sour, however, as the burgeoning Watergate scandal claimed more and more of his key aides and finally compelled his own resignation in August 1974. A pragmatic conservative who gained an early reputation as an anti-communist but achieved diplomatic triumphs in relations with China and the Soviet Union, Nixon's prolific writing in his retirement years helped repair his reputation and hasten his re-emergence as an elder statesman. Fine condition.