He was born, went to college, and entered the military. While in the Navy he was honored several times for meritorious service and eventually retired with the rank of lieutenant commander (Black 62)
The Vice President welcomed the president's initiatives and worked energetically to accomplish White House objectives. Because of the collaboration between these two leaders, Nixon deserves the title, 'the first modern vice president'" (Gellman 102)
While running both against Kennedy and then later against Humphrey and Wallace, Nixon was highly aggressive indicating that his desire to obtain the White House superceded anything else in his life. Nixon capitalized on post-war conservatism to create policies which would appeal to the conservatives and maintain his position of power, allowing him to be reelected in 1972 (Roark)
Further, as both a House Representative as Senator, Richard Nixon supported Civil Rights, rallied for statehood for both Hawaii and Alaska, and worked to provide aid for other countries that needed disaster relief. At the same time, he assisted in the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and helped in the investigation against alleged spy Alger Hiss (Stacks)
To appease women, he made no public opposition to Roe v. Wade (Wicker)
Nixon was the thirty-seventh American President whose administration started functioning in January1969 and concluded in August 1974 in an abrupt manner following the Watergate scandal. Despite the consequences brought by the scandal, Nixon's presidential terms can be remembered in good words considering the fact that they brought the nation success on many fronts (Collins, 2000)
In an attempt to challenge his political opponents like Senator Henry Jackson and Senator Edmund Muskie, Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1969 and the National Environmental Protection Act in 1970. For gaining advantage on regulatory legislation, Nixon signed laws that were formulated to reduce air, water, and pesticide pollution, control marine dumping, care for coastal zones and marine mammals, and struggle to overcome other problems (Flippen, 2000)
S. relationships with other countries of the world (Friedman & Levantrosser, 1991)
It is widely acknowledged that the Nixon years were a point of time in which spectacular, valiant, ground-breaking advancements and approaches in the field of foreign affairs took place. It can be said that those "were years when the conventional wisdom was challenged and when conventional solutions were eschewed for a new strategic approach to foreign policy" (Genovese, 1990)
S. To stop interfering in the affairs of other states) and he complains about "idealistic internationalists" who believe the United Nations could help build "…not just a better world, but a perfect world" (Nixon, 33)
S. begin Strategic Arms Limitation (SALT) with Soviet Union (Brodie, 1983)
And dissatisfaction amongst the American people. As the result of Water Gate scandal President Richard Nixon's last 16 months in office were full of legal defeats and personal humiliations (Wills, 1990)
They married on June 21, 1940, and had two daughters: Patricia, born in 1946, and Julie, born in 1948. [3] Education After schooling Richard Nixon entered Whittier College he was a very active student here (Ambrose, 1987) He was an active member of theatrical society here
Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was the 37th president (1968-1974) of United States of America. (Nixon foundation) He was only president who resigned from the presidency of U
He took part in the election of Congress as a candidate of Republicans in the year 1944. (Reedy) There were many points on which his electoral campaign was based upon, the core one being anti-communism
Nixon was not a great politician in this regard, since he never attached himself to powerful causes, and therefore lacked the political intimacies and camaraderies that so frequently serve to bond politicians together in common undertakings. In fact, Nixon's closest friends were not great leaders in the academic, business or political worlds or childhood pals, but a newly rich real estate speculator in Florida and the millionaire inventor of the aerosol valve, Charles (Bebe) Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp respectively (Evans & Novak 1972:5)
"Years from now," Whitaker observed, "it would not be Vietnam or foreign policy that people remembered about the Nixon administration, but rather its tremendous successes in domestic policy, most notably with regard to the environment. Even Nixon recognized that his foreign policy accomplishments represented his true legacy to the nation at this point and responded, "For God's sake, John, I hope that's not true" (Flippen 2000:220)
Contemporary Revisions. While the Nixon Administration will always be linked with the Watergate scandal and Nixon's forced resignation from office, young Americans who were not alive when the controversy grew into a political nightmare are still unclear about exactly what happened and still have difficulty understanding how it could lead to the loss of the presidency (Friedman & Levantrosser 1992)