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 Milhous Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States (1969-74) became President in 1969 after defeating Lyndon Johnson's Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey, in one of the closest elections in US history. Nixon won that election by only one percent of the popular vote. Nixon was the second youngest Vice President and the first Californian to serve in the White House. He was also the first Vice President to be elected President, but not to succeed the President under whom he had served.