--- title: President Richard M. Nixon Resignation: TIME Magazine Cover Gallery description: The 37th president, who resigned 40 years ago, scored 55 covers canonical: https://time.com/3080127/nixons-time-magazine-covers/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-05T14:00:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Richard M. 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Nixon Resignation: TIME Magazine Cover Gallery twitter:description: The 37th president, who resigned 40 years ago, scored 55 covers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb9b9510c5b1942a/69869e5d3617605f6690d546/richard-nixon-time-magazine-cover-01.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 55 Times Richard Nixon Was on the Cover of TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 5, 2014 2:00 PM UTC  Aug. 25, 1952 Aug. 25, 1952TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 5, 2014 2:00 PM UTC In early August of 1974, the news was all Nixon. On Aug. 5, the “[Smoking Gun](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,921119-1,00.html)” tapes were released, revealing to the public that he had known about Watergate. On Aug. 8, he became the first and only U.S. President to announce his resignation. But Nixon already had a long history in the news, and it didn’t end in 1974\. In fact, no other individual has been featured on the cover of TIME more frequently, with 55 appearances to his name. The irony in all that? None of those covers are from the week leading up to the resignation. That issue's cover featured Rep. Peter Rodino of the House Judiciary Committee; two weeks later, when the resignation itself made the cover, newly-inaugurated President Gerald Ford was featured. The issue in between—the issue that would have appeared right around the same time as the tapes went public—went a different direction: Jack Nicholson. [_Read Henry Kissinger’s 1982 take on the “Smoking Gun” of Watergate here, in TIME’s archives_](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,921119-1,00.html)  Aug. 25, 1952 TIME  Nov. 10, 1952 TIME  Jan. 18, 1954 TIME  Oct. 10, 1955 TIME  The Nov. 5, 1956, issue of TIME Boris Chaliapin  Nov. 12, 1956 TIME  Dec. 9, 1957 TIME  Aug. 3, 1959 TIME  Aug. 1, 1960 TIME  Oct. 31, 1960 TIME  April 14, 1967 TIME  Mar. 8, 1968 TIME  Aug. 16, 1968 TIME  Nov. 15, 1968 TIME  Jan. 24, 1969 TIME  Feb. 28, 1969 TIME  Aug. 15, 1969 TIME  Oct. 24, 1969 TIME  Nov. 21, 1969 TIME  April 20, 1970 TIME  June 8, 1970 TIME  Oct. 5, 1970 TIME  Oct. 26, 1970 TIME  July 26, 1971 TIME  Aug. 30, 1971 TIME  Jan. 3, 1972 TIME  Mar. 6, 1972 TIME  May 1, 1972 Time Magazine  May 22, 1972 Cover Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS  June 5, 1972 TIME  Aug. 28, 1972 TIME  Oct. 2, 1972 TIME  Nov. 20, 1972 TIME  Jan. 1, 1973 TIME  Jan. 29, 1973 TIME  Apr. 30, 1973 TIME  May 14, 1973 TIME  Jun. 4, 1973 TIME  June 18, 1973 TIME  July 9, 1973 TIME  July 30, 1973 TIME  Aug. 20, 1973 TIME  Aug. 27, 1973 TIME  Oct. 29, 1973 TIME  Nov. 5, 1973 TIME  April 15, 1974 TIME  May 13, 1974 TIME  May 20, 1974 TIME  June 24, 1974 TIME  July 1, 1974 TIME  July 22, 1974 TIME  Sept. 16, 1974 TIME  May 9, 1977 TIME  May 2, 1990 TIME  May 2, 1994 TIME **Correction, March 26, 2026:** The original version of this gallery mistakenly included two incorrect covers within the list of 55 times Richard Nixon has been on the cover of TIME. 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