No. Noriega wasn't removed from power in Panama by Nixon. he was removed by the First Bush president in 1989

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President Richard Nixon did not remove Manuel Noriega from power. Noriega was removed by the United States during the invasion of Panama in December 1989, an operation ordered by President George H.W. Bush. 

While Noriega was an intelligence source for the U.S. beginning in the early 1970s, during the Nixon administration (1969–1974), U.S. drug enforcement officials recommended that Nixon have Noriega "taken out" due to his involvement in drug trafficking. Nixon declined to act on this advice, and he soon faced his own political downfall with the Watergate scandal, making any such measures impossible. 

Noriega remained the de facto ruler of Panama throughout the 1980s, until tensions with the U.S. escalated under the Bush administration, leading to the invasion and his eventual capture and arrest on drug trafficking and money laundering charges in January 1990. 

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