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Richard Nixon had to re-build his credability following his resignation.

After a period of 'wallowing' and a serious illness, which with the media frenzy many people claimed he 'faked' the illness or was on a 'deathwish', Nixon very nearly did die, however made a full recovery and following this one of his 1st action was to visit China as a private citizen. This at the time was against the wishes of Ford, however Nixon was not an unpopular figure outside of the USA with many countries (Egypt, Russia, China, France etc.) incredulous that Nixon had been effectively forced to resign over what was in reality a very trivial matter.

Nixon spent the remainder of his life still largely active as an elder statesman of politics, providing useful council, particularly for Reagan and Bush Sr. and other presidents to follow.

He continued to visit foreign countries as a private citizen, however unofficially seen as a foreign dignitary with all honours and continued to do so often without the blessing of the then current administrations.

Nixon was also one of the few presidents to request all national security information available to the current president (which is a privilege extended only to previous presidents).

Richard Nixon also dedicated a significant part of his later life (post presidency) to writing his memoirs as well as books on his political policies and predictive world events. He was to prove very astute on some of his political predictions, including iran/contra as well as the fall of the Soviet Union (however Nixon did state he thought the Soviet Union had '50 years' left in 1980, however at the time he was one of a small number of politicians actually predicting the fall of the union.

Richard Nixon died in 1994 shortly after his wife's death.

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After his resignation on August 8 1974, former United States President Richard Milhous Nixon retired to write his memoirs and rehabilitate his reputation. He wrote numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and published eight books, including The Real War. Nixon came to be considered an elder statesman and political analyst. As an expert in foreign policy his advice and counsel were sought by Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton. Although his standing as a disgraced President dogged him he traveled again to China, where he was warmly received, and in 1994, shortly before his death, he returned to Russia. Seen by historians as one of the worst Presidents and rated by the Murray Poll in the 1982 Tribune as 34th out of 36, by the time of his death in 1994 he had achieved at least a partial rehabilitation, with the 1995 Chicago Sun-Times poll of presidential scholars ranking him 19th out of 38.

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Following his resignation, Richard and Pat Nixon returned to their home in San Clemente, California, where they lived until 1980. Nixon traveled throughout the United States and foreign countries. During his travels after resigning, although he was a private citizen, he had meetings with several Heads of State. He attended speaking engagements and wrote nine books.

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He first went to his estate at San Clemente, CA. Then he moved to New York City and then New Jersey. He did a lot of world travel and wrote 10 books. He gained considerable respect for his knowledge of world affairs.

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After Richard Nixon's resignation he worked as a elder statesman and went on to author nine books. In 1994 Nixon had a stroke and passed away days later.

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right after presidency, he lived in California.

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he lived in San Clemente, California

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Write a book

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