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Context of 'August 15, 1971: Nixon Takes US Dollar off Gold Standard'. This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event August 15, 1971: Nixon Takes US Dollar off Gold Standard. President Nixon officially announces the end of the gold standard system of monetary policy for international exchange of gold deposits in an evening address to the country.