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(Saturday, January 20, 1973, 12:01 p.m. EST) — President Richard Milhous Nixon of California took the oath of office today for a second term as the 37th president of the United States at the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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Just nine minutes earlier, at 11:52 a.m. EST, Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew of Maryland was sworn in for a second term as the 39th vice president of the United States.

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The Nixon-Agnew Republican ticket had defeated the Democratic ticket of George McGovern and Sargent Shriver in the 1972 United States presidential election by 520 to 17 votes in the Electoral College.

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In his inaugural address, Nixon promised to substitute stern self-reliance for the government’s “condescending policies of paternalism” at home and abroad, declaring that “America was not built by government, but by the people — not by welfare, but by work –not by shirking responsibility, but by seeking responsibility.”

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Later, during Nixon’s triumphant ride down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House at the head of the inaugural parade, about 100 jeering Vietnam War protesters massed at an intersection a block away from the Treasury building and tossed apples, oranges, and other debris in the direction of the president’s limousine. The president and Mrs. Nixon were not hit.