Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

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#OTD 8/11/1969 – The White House released a statement from President Nixon on plans to reimagine the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) with an emphasis on research and development of social programs. The President and OEO Director Donald Rumsfeld met in the President’s Western White House office to discuss the plans. (Image: WHPO-1818-02A)

#OTD 8/7/1974 – President Nixon called his family together in the White House Solarium to inform them of his decision to announce his resignation the following day. He asked White House photographer Oliver “Ollie” Atkins to document the gathering. (Images: WHPO-E3359-05A, 11A, 13A)

#OTD 8/6/1971 – President Nixon signed the Second Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The CEQ was created by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. It is a group within the Executive Office of the President whose purpose is to coordinate “the federal government’s efforts to improve, preserve, and protect America’s public health and environment.” (Image: WHPO-6966-08A)

#OTD 8/4/1971 – President Nixon, First Lady Pat Nixon, daughter Tricia Nixon Cox, and son-in-law Edward Cox went to an evening performance of the musical “No, No, Nanette” starring Ruby Keeler at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. The President signed autographs during the intermission, met the cast after the performance, and stopped to shake hands with some of the crowd outside the theatre. (Images: WHPO-6934-19A & 20A)

#OTD 8/3/1972 – President Nixon met retired professional athlete Ollie Matson and his family in the Oval Office. The occasion of the visit to the White House was for the President to congratulate Mr. Matson on his nomination for membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is also in the College Football Hall of Fame. In addition to his career in football, Matson won two Olympic medals for track and field events in the 1952 Olympic Games held in Helsinki, Finland. (Images: WHPO-9722-12 & 25)

#OTD 7/30/1973 – President Nixon met in the Oval Office with Prime Minister of Australia Edward Gough Whitlam. At the height of a constitutional crisis in 1975, Whitlam became the only prime minister to be dismissed from office by a governor-general of Australia. (Image: WHPO-E1276-08)

#OTD 7/27/1971 – President Nixon and former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower received silver proof coins of the Eisenhower silver dollar from Director of the U.S. Mint Mary Brooks and Treasury Secretary John Connally. (Image: WHPO-6854-22)

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#OTD 7/23/1970 – President Nixon greeted President Urho Kekkonen of Finland at the White House north portico for a State Dinner held in the Finnish President's honor. Kekkonen, who held office from 1956 until 1982, remains Finland’s longest serving president. (Image: WHPO-3989-01)

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#OTD 7/13/1973 – President Nixon was hospitalized at Bethesda Naval Hospital for a case of viral pneumonia. Dr. Sol Katz, Director of the Pulmonary Diseases Division at Georgetown University Medical School, Dr. Walter Tkach, the President’s personal physician, and Ronald Ziegler, White House Press Secretary, held a press briefing. President Nixon was discharged from the hospital one week later. (Image: WHPO-E1192-29)

#OTD 7/10/1972 – Actor John Wayne visited with President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger in the President’s Western White House office. (Images: WHPO-9560-5A and 10A)

#OTD 7/9/1973 – President Nixon witnessed Judge William H. Becker swear-in Clarence M. Kelley as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Federal Office Building, Kansas City, MO. Kelley served as the Bureau’s second director until February 15, 1978. (Image: WHPO-E1165-07)

#OTD 7/8/1970 – President Nixon met with Taos Pueblo Indian Tribal Council representatives and sent a Special Message to the Congress on Indian Affairs advocating for "self-determination without termination" as well as policies to put right "centuries of injustice." (Images: WHPO-3841-11 & 07) Read the special message online: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-indian-affairs