MARY BRASWELL: Looking back at Richard Nixon | QUIK QUIZ - The Albany Herald

Each week Albany Herald researcher Mary Braswell looks for interesting events, places and people from the past. You can contact her at (229) 888-9371 or mary. It was 41 years ago today that President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned his position as president of the United States amid the storm of the Watergate scandal. , Richard Milhous Nixon was born on Jan. His middle name came from the maternal side of the family. When his mother’s ancestors moved from Germany to England in the 1600s, they changed their last name from Milhausen to Milhous. Source: www.albanyherald.com