Richard Nixon

A detailed Summary of Richard Nixon

Richard M. Nixon was a very important figure in the history of the United States of America. Although his positive achievements are often overshadowed by his involvement in the Whitewater Scandal, I hope to shed some light on the true Richard Nixon.

Richard Milhouse Nixon was born in California to Quaker parents. He attended Whittier College, and then attended Duke University Law School. He graduated and then began practicing Law in his hometown of Whittier. After his work in Whittier was complete he began working for the office of Price Administration in Washington. He then joined the Navy and went on duty with the United States Navy. In 1946, after his discharge from the Navy he ran for Congress as a Republican and was elected to the house of Representatives. With the personality of a prosecuting attorney he made many enemies and very few friends. While serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee, which held public hearings accusing people of being communist, and treated those who refused to answer as guilty. While a member of this committee he won National attention with the famous Alger case. In this case Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury, he had been giving secret documents to Whittaker Chambers, a confessed fo

rmer Soviet Courier. Throughout the case Alger's key witneses were high ranking democrats. This caused the citizens to fear that the nation was getting soft on communism. With Nixon's conviction of Hiss it helped elect Nixon to Senator of California in 1950. In 1952 he was elected to Vice President with General Eisenhower. IN 1960 he ran for president against John F. Kennedy, and Lost. Later in 1968 he ran for President again and this time won.

The situation in Vietnam was escalating to an unjustifiable point and the people of the United States were fed up with all that was going on. He had promised an end to the war and the people wanted and awaited the end to the war. He reiterated his promise of an end in May of 1969 when he stated that he intended to keep that promise. He said that he "ruled out either a one sided withdrawal... or the acceptance of terms that would amount to a disguised American defeat." Many people today feel that in order to protect himself from public hostility he told the public that he was removing soldiers from Vietnam, when in fact he was widening the war. Nixon's "peace plan" was actually surrounded by secret bombings and plans and threats to bomb from Indonesia to North Korea. In order to avoid anti-war protests Nixons secret bombings were kept from nearly everyone , including the public and Congress. The secret bombings were so secret that the secretary of the Air Force was kept from knowing about them. These bombings were meant to force North Vietnam to accept the agreement with the U.S as well as pushing the South to step up and feel assured that the U.S was backing them although they would not be in Vietnam. Although Nixon was bombing and had more plans to bomb he was somewhat true to his word, he did start the removal of U.S soldiers from Vietnam. On January 15, 1973 Nixon announced that he was calling a halt to the United States o

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