 I mean, unbelievable, but Chicago's lefty Mayor Brandon Johnson is blaming Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon, who resigned from the presidency in 1974 and died in 1994 for Chicago's crippling crime problem. Black death has been, unfortunately, been accepted in this country for a long time, he said at a press conference. We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes, and people mocked President Johnson. We ended up with Richard Nixon.