EFEMERIDES

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1896 Nació Jean Piaget, psicólogo infantil francés.
1878 Nació Paul Renner, tipógrafo, diseñador y pintor francés.
1631 Nació John Dryden, poeta y dramaturgo inglés.

1904 Fallece Friedrich Ratzel, geógrafo alemán.
378 Fallece Valente, emperador romano.
117 Fallece Trajano, emperador romano.

Santa Benedicta
San Romano

Efemérides del día, efemérides de la semana, efemérides del año. Cuándo nació? Donde nació? Donde murió? Cuando murió? Cómo murió?. Santoral de hoy, todos los Santos, las Santas, las Beatas...

1974 Richard Nixon abandona sus funciones en la presidencia de los Estados Unidos.
1965 Singapur alcanza su independencia de Malasia
1945 Segunda bomba atómica lanzada contra una ciudad en la historia destruye Nagasaki.
1902 Coronan el rey Eduardo VII del Reino Unido
1173 Se inicia la construcción de la Torre de Pisa.
378 Batalla de Adrianópolis (actual Edirne en Turquía) entre los visigodos y el ejército romano liderado por el emperador Valente, quién cae muerto en la contienda.


Real Richard Nixon: 28 DAYS (1) - Resignation Speech & Watergate



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The Real Richard Nixon
Vol. 3: "28 Days"
Interview with Frank Gannon

In this interview/documentary segment, President Richard Nixon discusses his feelings upon returning from trips to the Middle East and the Soviet Union about the possibility of his impeachment over the Watergate scandal. He talks about the press, his political intuition (including his earlier intuition about the 1948 presidential election between Tom Dewey and Harry Truman), and his sense that the Democrats had a vested interest to get him (he especially mentions House Impeachment Committee Chairman Peter Rondino and House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill). Also included is a clip of the end of his resignation speech and a brief outtake from immediately after the speech (informal outtakes from before this speech can also be seen on YouTube).

The video clip comes from 38 hours of interviews that Nixon did with Frank Gannon in 1983 during eight days of interviews spread out over several months. Gannon used to work for Nixon and was well acquainted with the former president. Subsequently, Nixon is more at ease and open here than in most of his recorded interviews, including the more famous Frost/Nixon interviews, which were more confrontational.

This volume of the interview covers Richard Nixon's account of his final days in office.