I do not think so. Presidents have always been paid by the US treasury. The pension plan for ex-presidents started in 1958 , years before Nixon was president.
No, President Lyndon B. Johnson was not the first president to borrow money from the Social Security Trust Fund. Presidents before him, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, had also borrowed from the trust fund to finance government expenditures. Borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund has been a common practice by several presidents since its establishment in 1935.
In 1950, 76 different Southern California business men contributed to Richard Nixon's slush fund. Each man paid $900 a month towards the fund.
it was never transferred to the general fund.
John F. Kennedy started the program to send men to the moon, but died in 1963. After his death, Richard Nixon continued to fund John Fitzgerald Kennedy's space program and in 1969, while Richard M. Nixon was president, the first men landed on the moon.
yes
It gave federal money to states to fund social programs
The Watergate scandal implicated former President Richard Nixon for his involvement in the breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. Money found on the perpetrators was connected to a slush fund for the re-election of Nixon. Nixon often recorded conversations that took place in his office and was ordered by the US Supreme Court to hand over the tapes which subsequently led to his resignation.
The famous speech that helped President Nixon stave off criticism and remain on the Republican ticket in 1952 was the "Checkers speech." In this address, Nixon defended himself against allegations of impropriety in the form of a political slush fund by referencing a gift he had received - a cocker spaniel named Checkers - and stating that he would not give back the dog, as it was a gift to his children. The speech resonated with the public and helped Nixon retain his place on the ticket.
To be fair, all presidents attend fund-raisers, and due to the increasingly competitive nature of modern politics, compounded by the 24/7 cable news channels and more recently, by the Supreme Court's controversial "Citizens United" decision (which allowed unlimited donations by corporations to candidates of their choice), presidents need to constantly be fund-raising. Thus, whether you are asking about President Bush or any other president, it is difficult to accurately give you a dollar figure: President Bush may have sometimes combined fund-raising with official presidential business, a common practice these days. But just to give you some sense of things, during his re-election campaign in 2004, President Bush attended 86 fund-raisers. He also created a group called the "Bush Pioneers," wealthy donors who gave large amounts to his campaign, enabling him to do other things while his donors raised money on his behalf. And it should be noted that President Bush also spent considerable time fund-raising for other Republican candidates (and by implication, for the Republican party), so the figure of 86 is misleading.
President is the custodian
What was to become known as the Watergate scandal began June 17th, 1972 with the arrest of 5 "plumbers" burglarizing the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.The "plumbers" were shown to have been paid from a slush fund attached to the Committee to RE Elect the President (CREEP).After 2 years of investigation evidence was uncovered linking the President directly with the attempted cover up and Richard Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment.
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