The 55 Times Richard Nixon Was on the Cover of TIME

  • Aug. 25, 1952
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    1 of 55
  • Nov. 10, 1952
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    2 of 55
  • Jan. 18, 1954
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    3 of 55
  • Oct. 10, 1955
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    4 of 55
  • The Nov. 5, 1956, issue of TIME
    Boris Chaliapin
    5 of 55
  • Nov. 12, 1956
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    6 of 55
  • Dec. 9, 1957
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    7 of 55
  • Aug. 3, 1959
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    8 of 55
  • Aug. 1, 1960
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    9 of 55
  • Oct. 31, 1960
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    10 of 55
  • April 14, 1967
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    11 of 55
  • Mar. 8, 1968
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    12 of 55
  • Aug. 16, 1968
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    13 of 55
  • Nov. 15, 1968
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    14 of 55
  • Jan. 24, 1969
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    15 of 55
  • Feb. 28, 1969
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    16 of 55
  • Aug. 15, 1969
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    17 of 55
  • Oct. 24, 1969
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    18 of 55
  • Nov. 21, 1969
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    19 of 55
  • April 20, 1970
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    20 of 55
  • June 8, 1970
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    21 of 55
  • Oct. 5, 1970
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    22 of 55
  • Oct. 26, 1970
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    23 of 55
  • July 26, 1971
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    24 of 55
  • Aug. 30, 1971
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    25 of 55
  • Jan. 3, 1972
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    26 of 55
  • Mar. 6, 1972
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    27 of 55
  • May 1, 1972
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    28 of 55
  • June 5, 1972
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    29 of 55
  • Aug. 28, 1972
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    30 of 55
  • Oct. 2, 1972
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    31 of 55
  • Nov. 20, 1972
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    32 of 55
  • Jan. 1, 1973
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    33 of 55
  • Jan. 29, 1973
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    34 of 55
  • Apr. 30, 1973
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    35 of 55
  • May 14, 1973
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    36 of 55
  • Jun. 4, 1973
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    37 of 55
  • June 18, 1973
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    38 of 55
  • July 9, 1973
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    39 of 55
  • July 30, 1973
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    40 of 55
  • Aug. 20, 1973
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    41 of 55
  • Aug. 27, 1973
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    42 of 55
  • Oct. 29, 1973
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    43 of 55
  • Nov. 5, 1973
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    44 of 55
  • Apr. 1, 1974
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    45 of 55
  • April 15, 1974
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    46 of 55
  • May 13, 1974
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    47 of 55
  • May 20, 1974
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    48 of 55
  • June 24, 1974
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    49 of 55
  • July 1, 1974
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    50 of 55
  • July 22, 1974
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    51 of 55
  • Sept. 16, 1974
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    52 of 55
  • May 9, 1977
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    53 of 55
  • May 2, 1990
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    54 of 55
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    55 of 55
By TIME Staff
August 5, 2014 10:00 AM EDT

Correction appended: Jan. 23, 2017

In early August of 1974, 40 years ago this week, the news was all Nixon. On Aug. 5, the “Smoking Gun” 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 precisely 40 years ago. The week leading up to the resignation, the 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

Correction: 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. He was depicted on the cover on June 18, 1973, and April 1, 1974.

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