For sale is an original 1991 RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY & BIRTHPLACE LAPEL PIN from the Richard Nixon Presidential Museum. This lapel pin is in excellent condition and measures one inch diameter. Use it to kick start your impeached Presidential memorabilia collection.
The 37th President of the United States was born on January 9, 1913 in a small farmhouse in Yorba Linda, California. Yorba is home of the Nixon Library which has the tall task of painting the Richard Nixon administration in a positive light. In 1952 General Eisenhower selected him as his running mate. He was Vice President for eight years. After losing to John F. Kennedy by a razor-thin margin in 1960 and then making an unsuccessful bid for governor of California in 1962, he practiced law, wrote, and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. After a painstaking political comeback that astonished political friends and foes alike, he was elected President in 1968 winning re-election in 1972 by a historic margin. President Nixon was charged with complicity in blocking the FBI’s investigation of the June 1972 Watergate break-in. After the House Judiciary Committee passed three Articles of Impeachment in July 1974 and the Supreme Court ordered the release of White House tapes that appeared to implicate the President further in Watergate, he decided to resign on August 9, 1974, prior to impeachment by the full House and the Senate trial that would have followed.
