Republican Richard Milhouse Nixon served as Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower, and as president from 1969-1974. Facing impeachment in 1974 for his role in the “Watergate” scandal (“dirty tricks” including burglary employed by him and his staff that sought to sabotage the Democrats), he chose instead to resign from office, the only president ever to do so. He spent the subsequent years traveling, speaking, and writing ten books, and died in 1994 at age 81. Charcoal on tinted paper.