Dos Equis is making major changes to the Most Interesting Man in the World campagin.
Back to Menu! . 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.
Watergate's 40th Anniversary: President Nixon's Resignation. On 8 August 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from office, after his administration's attempted cover-up of the Watergate political scandal was exposed. Richard Nixon was elected President of the USA in 1968. He continued to support America's involvement in the Vietnam war, althought he did not believe it could be won.