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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/25/1974 President and Mrs. Nixon flew to Jackson, Mississippi for the Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Economic Council‐State Chamber of Commerce held at the Mississippi Coliseum. The President addressed the crowd of a reported 10,000 attendees and attended a luncheon that followed. (Image: WHPO-E2664-15A)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/24/1974 President Nixon held a meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders regarding foreign aid legislation to Egypt and other nations. The same day, the White House issued the President's special message to Congress regarding proposed legislation for foreign assistance funding in fiscal year 1975. (Image: WHPO-E2660-04)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/23/1974 First Lady Pat Nixon hosted a reception in the White House Blue Room for the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. The committee’s charter states its objective as “[providing] advice and recommendations on matters relating to women in the Armed Forces of the United States.” (Image: WHPO-E2657-12A)

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#OTD 4/22/1994 Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States, died at the age of 81 following a stroke suffered four days prior. His funeral was held five days later at the then-private Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace. (Image: WHPO-2055-04)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/18/1974 President Nixon met with Ismail Fahmy, Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and United States Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger. (Image: WHPO-E2636-08A)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/17/1974 President Nixon met with Klaus Schuetz, Mayor of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany; Gunther Struve, head of the Berlin Senate press department; Berndt von Staden, West German Ambassador to the United States; and Maj. Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President. (Image: WHPO-E2621-04A)

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#OTD 4/16/1972 Giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, gifts from the People’s Republic of China to the United States, arrived safely at Andrews Air Force Base. (Image: Panda in transportation crate arriving at the National Zoo, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archive)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/10/1974 President Nixon visited Michigan to participate in a campaign motorcade through Michigan's Eighth Congressional District from Huron County Airport near Bad Axe to Sandusky City Airport. The President was accompanied by James Sparling, Republican candidate for that district. (Image: WHPO-E2598-04)

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#Nixon50#OTD 4/9/1974 President Nixon made an unannounced visit to Xenia, Ohio to survey damage from the devastating tornado that struck a few days earlier without advance warning. The tornado caused 32 deaths and destroyed about half the town.

The Xenia tornado was the deadliest of the 1974 "Super Outbreak" which, at the time, was the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period - a record that remained unbroken until the 2011 Super Outbreak.

The tornado that struck Xenia was one of 148 confirmed tornadoes that cut a 900 square mile swath of destruction across 13 states and Ontario, Canada during April 3-4, 1974. (Images: WHPO-E2593-13A and 22A)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/8/1974 President Nixon signed the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974, S.2747. The bill incrementally raised the federal minimum wage to $2.30. Also shown is United States Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan. (Images: WHPO-E2588-09A, E2589-09A)

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Tomorrow, April 9, at 6 pm, join us as Dr. Gregory Cumming, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Staff Historian and Adjunct Professor at the University of La Verne, discusses his book "The Symbionese Liberation Army and Patricia Hearst: Queen of the Revolution." Visit our website or scan the QR code to learn more about this fascinating free event!

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/5/1974 President Nixon traveled to Paris for the funeral of French President Georges Pompidou, who had died of cancer on April 2nd. Instead of the President, here we see members of the press corps, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, Jr., and Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler working aboard Air Force One. (Image: WHPO-E2562-01)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/4/1974 President Nixon met with Senator Marlow W. Cook (R-KY), Senator Robert Taft, Jr. (R-OH), Thomas P. Dunne, Administrator of the Federal Disaster Administration, James T. Lynn, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and others to discuss damage assessments in the nine-state area hit by severe storms and tornadoes the previous day. (Image: WHPO-E2558-09A)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 4/3/1974 First Lady Pat Nixon attended a ceremony designating the Old Patent Office building in Washington, DC as a National Historic Landmark. The Greek Revival style building was built during the years 1836–1867. The building has been a home to not only the Patent Office but also various other government organizations and events as well as used by the military during the Civil War. Presently, the building is the home of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art. (Image: WHPO-E2553-17)

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#Nixon50 #OTD 3/29/1974 President and Mrs. Nixon attended a Special Joint Service Review ceremony honoring Vietnam Veterans held at the National War College Building at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC. The ceremony was sponsored by the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Image: WHPO-E2526-06A)

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This morning, we were honored to host a naturalization ceremony with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

Ninety-eight kids swore their Oath of Allegiance to became citizens. They come from twenty-six countries on five continents and are welcomed as our newest Americans. Congratulations to everyone who participated today!!!

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On April 9, 2024, Dr. Gregory Cumming, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Staff Historian and Adjunct Professor at the University of La Verne, will be discussing his book "The Symbionese Liberation Army and Patricia Hearst: Queen of the Revolution"

Visit our website or scan the QR code to learn more about this fascinating free event!