No Date Medal Richard Nixon 1st Term

Coin Details

Description

This undated medal of Richard Nixon (first term) is a standard U.S. Mint bronze presidential medal honoring the thirty-seventh President during his first term (1969-1973). The "1st Term" designation indicates this medal was produced with the obverse portrait and reverse design specific to Nixon's initial presidential term, before the Watergate scandal that would define and end his second term. Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) won the presidency in 1968 during one of the most tumultuous years in American history, marked by the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and widespread civil unrest. His first term produced significant accomplishments: the historic opening to China in 1972, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) with the Soviet Union, the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, the beginning of detente, and the desegregation of Southern schools — more schools were desegregated under Nixon than under any other president. Nixon also escalated and then gradually wound down American involvement in Vietnam through the policy of "Vietnamization," conducted the secret bombing of Cambodia, and responded to anti-war protests with measures that foreshadowed the abuses of power that would emerge during Watergate. He won re-election in 1972 in one of the largest landslides in presidential history, carrying 49 states. The first-term medal captures Nixon before the constitutional crisis that would lead to his resignation in August 1974.

Rarity Notes

Standard U.S. Mint bronze presidential medal, first-term version. Produced for ongoing public sale. Available in the numismatic market.

Cross References

PCGS #413534