Richard Nixon actually said...

So we congratulate you. We congratulate your students for speaking so highly of you so that you receive this award.

Dear Mrs. Barrientos: Mrs. Nixon joins me in sending you our deepest sympathy and condolence during this time of sorrow.

This should be, as it was first proposed, 'an institution of learning that the 22nd Century will regard as having influenced the 21st.'

So we have an outstanding student and the teacher who made him that way.