ОписаниеPresident Richard Nixon and Léopold Sédar Senghor, the President of Senegal.jpg
English: 1/2 #Nixon50 #OTD President Nixon met with Leopold Sedar Senghor, the President of Senegal. Senghor served as Senegal’s first president during the years 1960-1980. (Image: WHPO-6654-06)
2/2 During World War II, Senghor served with the French Army and worked with the French Resistance following his release from a German POW camp in 1942. He was also a renowned poet and the first African to be admitted to the Académie Française.