Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) and is the only person to resign from the presidency. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961).


 * He, along with U.S. Army General Jim Houseman, was involved in the patriots' Les Enfant Terrible project. Which his predecessor President Lydon Johnson started in the 1960s
 * Richard Nixon's resignation from the Presidency, will factor into the main story of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker as it is set in November 1974. Three months after Nixon resigned.
 * He was also the First US President the Patriots would have had control over as they were founded in 1970.
 * His involvement in the Watergate Scandal was exposed by an FBI Agent known as Deepthroat, a codename Gray Fox would also use years later during the Shadow Moses Incident in February 2005.
 * President Nixon was involved with Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty talks Leonid Brezhnev was promoting which was one of the reasons the Soviet Base at San Hieronymo Peninsula was abandoned so the Soviets could go along with the deal without the United States ever knowing about the Base.
 * It is possible by announcing that once elected he would pull the US troops out of Vietnam that this incident had something to do with the CIA giving Lieutenant Cunningham a desk job after he lost his leg.
 * Richard Nixon was Vice President under President Dwight .D. Eisenhower during the 1950's and he tried to run for president in 1960 but lost to John F Kennedy.
 * Before entering politics he was in the United States Navy and served in the Second World War against the Japanese in the Pacific.
 * Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California and lived there until 1922.

Trivia

 * Richard Nixon's fist appearance in the Metal Gear series was the Metal Gear Solid Novelization. Which mentions a gray haired nameless U.S. President with then U.S. Army General Jim Houseman meeting Dr Clark about the Les Enfant Terrible Project. When Hideo Kojima Revealed that President Nixon's resignation would play a part in Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. The President in the MGS Novel was now revealed to be Nixon.