Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was a human male who would serve as President of the United States of America from 1969 to 1974.

In a move to improve relations with China following that nation's split with the Soviet Union, Nixon became the first President to visit the communist nation in February of 1972. Also during his Presidency Nixon met with Henry Starling and the two men were photographed together. (TOS movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, VOY episode Future's End)

Rather than face almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, President Nixon chose to resign from the Presidency in August of 1974. In later years Nixon's legacy would be mixed - while many remembered Watergate, there was also a degree of admiration for some of his accomplishments. The Vulcans would develop a proverb, "Only Nixon could go to China" - which Captain Spock used to justify sending Captain James T. Kirk on a peace mission to the Klingon Empire. (TOS movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)