Richard Nixon

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** FILE ** Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, pose for photos while campaigning for the presidency at Rockefeller Center in New York in June 1960. (AP Photo)

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President Richard Nixon (right), shown with Redskins coach George Allen on Jan. 2, 1973, challenged the NFL to change its blackout policy. (Associated Press)

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Norman Rockwell said President Nixon was "the hardest man I ever painted," and opted to make him look good. (Photograph provided by the National Portrait Gallery)

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A 1971 photo of a woman holding pingpong paddles bearing caricatures of President Nixon and China's Mao Zedong recalls that year's Chinese-U.S. match in Dortmund, Germany, which led to Nixon's historic visit to Beijing. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Aug. 9, 1974, file photo, Richard Nixon says goodbye to members of his staff outside the White House in Washington as he boards a helicopter for Andrews Air Force Base after resigning the presidency in Washington. (AP Photo/File)

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Vice President Richard M. Nixon drives from the tee at Congressional in August 1957 in one of the photos on display in the club's History Hall. (Congressional Country Club)

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The Nixon Center, founded by President Richard M. Nixon before he died in 1994, has dropped "Nixon" to become the more generic Center for the National Interest. (Associated Press)