Here is one of possibly thousands of examples of switchbacks. This is a track schmematic at Creal where the SP (now UP) serves a cement plant at the end of a branchline west of Mojave.. There are several switchbacks here. One is the end of branch serving as the lead to the yard, and there are two serving the coal dump.
Nixon served as president from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974. Nixon served one full term and resigned after serving about 19 months of his second term, because of whâ¦at was coined the Watergate Scandal.. Benella Deculus Thomas.
Richard M. Nixon was one of the two most successful national politicians in American history. He won four national elections, twice for the vice presidency and twice for the presidency.Only Franklin D. Roosevelt won as many national elections as Nixon.s vice-president, Gerald R. Ford^ was sworn in as Nixon`s successor and on September 8, 1974, announced that Nixon was being pardoned for all crimes that he might have committed during his presidency, thereby ending any threat of prosecution.