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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1994
Contents:
Message to the Congress on the Death of President Richard Nixon,
April 22, 1994
To the Congress of the United States:
It is my sad duty to inform you officially of the death of Richard Milhous Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States.
Born in 1913, he was first elected to the Congress in 1946, a member of that historic freshman class of World War II veterans that also included John F. Kennedy. He was elected to the Senate in 1950, and served two terms as Vice President of the United States between 1953 and 1961. His career in the Congress coincided with the great expansion of the American middle class, when men and women from backgrounds as humble as his own secured the triumph of freedom abroad and the promise of economic growth at home.
He remained a visible presence in American public life for over half a century. Yet through all those years of service to his country, in the military, in the Congress, in the Presidency, and beyond, he cherished his life as a private man, a family man. He was lovingly devoted to his wife, Pat, to their daughters Patricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower, and to his four grandchildren.
His lifetime and public career were intertwined with America’s rise as a world power. His faith in America never wavered, from his famous "kitchen debate" with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev through all of the debates that followed. We Americans and our neighbors abroad will always owe him a special debt for opening diplomatic doors to Beijing and Moscow during his Presidency, and his influence in world affairs will be felt for years to come.
Richard Milhous Nixon lived the "American Dream." Now, he rests in peace.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 22, 1994.
Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on April 23.
Contents:
Chicago: William J. Clinton, "Message to the Congress on the Death of President Richard Nixon, April 22, 1994," Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1994 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, April 29, 1994 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Vol. 30 Original Sources, accessed October 12, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DCUEZ97PGNHB8H1.
MLA: Clinton, William J. "Message to the Congress on the Death of President Richard Nixon, April 22, 1994." Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1994, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, April 29, 1994 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Vol. 30, Original Sources. 12 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DCUEZ97PGNHB8H1.
Harvard: Clinton, WJ, 'Message to the Congress on the Death of President Richard Nixon, April 22, 1994' in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1994. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, April 29, 1994 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Vol. 30. Original Sources, retrieved 12 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DCUEZ97PGNHB8H1.
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