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Richard Milhous Nixon /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.ɝd ˈmɪl.haʊ̯s ˈnɪk.sən/, né le 9 janvier 1913 à Yorba Linda et mort le 22 avril 1994 à New York, est un homme d'État américain. Membre du Parti républicain, il est le 37e président des États-Unis, en fonctions du 20 janvier 1969 au 9 août 1974.

Issu d’une famille modeste, il étudie à l'université Duke, puis devient juriste. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il sert dans la Marine.

Il est élu en 1946 représentant des États-Unis pour le 12e district de Californie, puis sénateur en 1950. Son engagement dans l'affaire d'espionnage Alger Hiss établit sa réputation d'anticommuniste et le fait connaître au niveau national. Élu en 1952 vice-président des États-Unis sur le ticket républicain mené par Dwight D. Eisenhower, il occupe la vice-présidence de 1953 à 1961. Il brigue la succession d’Eisenhower en 1960, mais est défait par le démocrate John F. Kennedy à l'issue d'une élection très serrée. Il échoue également à devenir gouverneur de Californie en 1962. Sa traversée du désert s'achève six ans plus tard par son élection à la Maison-Blanche ; il est ainsi une des rares personnalités à accéder à la présidence après avoir perdu une élection présidentielle auparavant.

Pendant sa présidence, s'il commence par accroître l'engagement américain au Viêt Nam, il négocie la fin du conflit et met fin à l'intervention en 1973. Sa visite en République populaire de Chine en 1972 permet l'ouverture de relations diplomatiques entre les deux pays ; la même année, il instaure la Détente et le traité ABM avec l'Union soviétique. En politique intérieure, son administration soutient des politiques de dévolution du pouvoir du gouvernement fédéral vers les États. Il renforce la lutte contre le cancer et les drogues, impose un contrôle sur les prix et les salaires, fait appliquer la déségrégation dans les écoles du Sud, et crée l'Agence de protection de l'Environnement. Bien qu'il soit président lors de la mission Apollo 11, il réduit le soutien au programme spatial américain.

Il est réélu en 1972 en remportant 49 des 50 États américains, soit une des plus larges majorités jamais obtenues aux États-Unis. Son second mandat est marqué par le premier choc pétrolier et ses conséquences économiques, par la démission de son vice-président Spiro Agnew et par les révélations successives sur son implication dans le scandale du Watergate. L'affaire coûte à Nixon la plupart de ses appuis politiques et le conduit à démissionner le 9 août 1974, alors qu’il est menacé d’être destitué. Après son départ du pouvoir, il bénéficie d'une grâce de la part de son successeur, Gerald Ford.

Durant sa retraite, il écrit plusieurs ouvrages et s’implique sur la scène internationale, ce qui contribue à réhabiliter son image publique. Il meurt à l'âge de 81 ans, quelques jours après avoir été victime d'une grave attaque cérébrale. L'héritage et la personnalité de Richard Nixon continuent à faire l'objet d'importants débats. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. janvier 1913 – 22. avril 1994   •   Autres noms Richard Milhous Nixon, Ричард Никсон
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Richard Nixon: Citations en anglais

“I should say this — that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.”

1950s, Checkers speech (1952)
Contexte: p>That's what we have and that's what we owe. It isn't very much but Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly ours. I should say this — that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.One other thing I probably should tell you because if we don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something — a gift — after the election. A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was. It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.</p

“And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.”

1950s, Checkers speech (1952)
Contexte: p>That's what we have and that's what we owe. It isn't very much but Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly ours. I should say this — that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.One other thing I probably should tell you because if we don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something — a gift — after the election. A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was. It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.</p

“The important thing in our process, however, is to play the game,”

1970s, Remarks on Being Reelected (1972)
Contexte: The important thing in our process, however, is to play the game, and in the great game of life, and particularly the game of politics, what is important is that on either side more Americans voted this year than ever before, and the fact that you won or you lost must not keep you from keeping in the great game of politics in the years ahead, because the better competition we have between the two parties, between the two men running for office, whatever office that may be, means that we get the better people and the better programs for our country.

“In a civilized nation no man can excuse his crime against the person or property of another by claiming that he, too, has been a victim of injustice. To tolerate that is to invite anarchy”

1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967)
Contexte: There can be no right to revolt in this society; no right to demonstrate outside the law, and, in Lincoln's words, 'no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law'. In a civilized nation no man can excuse his crime against the person or property of another by claiming that he, too, has been a victim of injustice. To tolerate that is to invite anarchy.

“The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.”

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker" was later used as Nixon's epitaph.
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969)
Contexte: What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America — the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization.
If we succeed, generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for mankind.
This is our summons to greatness.

“Well, then, some of you will say, and rightly, "Well, what did you use the fund for, Senator? Why did you have to have it?" Let me tell you in just a word how a Senate office operates. First of all, a Senator gets $15,000 a year in salary. He gets enough money to pay for one trip a year, a round trip, that is, for himself, and his family between his home and Washington, DC. And then he gets an allowance to handle the people that work in his office to handle his mail. And the allowance for my State of California, is enough to hire 13 people. And let me say, incidentally, that that allowance is not paid to the Senator. It is paid directly to the individuals that the Senator puts on his payroll. But all of these people and all of these allowances are for strictly official business; business, for example, when a constituent writes in and wants you to go down to the Veteran's Administration and get some information about his GI policy — items of that type, for example. But there are other expenses that are not covered by the Government. And I think I can best discuss those expenses by asking you some questions.Do you think that when I or any other senator makes a political speech, has it printed, should charge the printing of that speech and the mailing of that speech to the taxpayers? Do you think, for example, when I or any other Senator makes a trip to his home State to make a purely political speech that the cost of that trip should be charged to the taxpayers? Do you think when a Senator makes political broadcasts or political television broadcasts, radio or television, that the expense of those broadcasts should be charged to the taxpayers? Well I know what your answer is. It's the same answer that audiences give me whenever I discuss this particular problem: The answer is no. The taxpayers shouldn't be required to finance items which are not official business but which are primarily political business.”

1950s, Checkers speech (1952)

“North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”

Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (3 November 1969) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2303&st=&st1=
1960s

“But by God, there are exceptions. But Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on us.”

On Jews, to H. R. Haldeman, as quoted in "Nixon: I Am Not an Anti-Semite" by Timothy Noah, in Slate (7 October 1999) http://www.slate.com/id/1003783/
1990s
Variante: But, Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on you. Am I wrong or right?

“[Keynesian]I am now a Keynesian in economics.”

Just after a broadcast interview with four newsmen (6 January 1971), according to Howard K. Smith, one of the interviewers. "Nixon Has Shifted to Ideas of Keyness: ABC Commentator" http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=awpdAAAAIBAJ&pg=916,487551
1970s

“Put 800 million Chinese to work under a decent system and they will be the leaders of the world.”

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/pdf/OnChina-Chapter9.pdf
2000s

“On Christmas Eve, during my terrible personal ordeal of the renewed bombing of North Vietnam, which after 12 years of war finally helped to bring America peace with honor, I sat down just before midnight. I wrote out some of my goals for my second term as President.
Let me read them to you:”

To make it possible for our children, and for our children's children, to live in a world of peace.
To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunity — of equal opportunity, full opportunity for every American.
To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for those who cannot work. To establish a climate of decency and civility, in which each person respects the feelings and the dignity and the God-given rights of his neighbor.
To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live his dreams — not in fear, but in hope — proud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world.
1970s, First Watergate Speech (1973)

“And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.”

State of the Union Address (30 January 1974) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4327
1970s

“What it is, is it’s the insecurity. It’s the latent insecurity. Most Jewish people are insecure. And that’s why they have to prove things.”

Conversation on Jewish aides as quoted on tapes recorded February-March 1973 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/national/20101211_NIXON_AUDIO/1_INFERIORITY.mp3 "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/us/politics/11nixon.html, by Adam Nagourney, New York Times (10 December 2010)
1970s

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.”

Tape 407, Conversation No. 407-18, 32:08 http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/tape407/407-018.mp3
On Nixon Tapes, Ambivalence Over Abortion, Not Watergate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, June 23 2009, retrieved June 23 2009
1970s, Tape transcripts (1973)

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