The Reign of Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9th, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He was born into a large and predominantly poor family who lived on the edge of poverty. Dick had four brothers in which he loved very much. Tragedy struck at an early age for Dick when younger brother Arthur died of unpublished causes (Lindop, 10). From then on Nixon prided on making a success out of himself, to try to make up for the loss of his brother. Frank Nixon, the father of Dick, dropped out of school in sixth grade because he was poverty stricken and he needed to support himself (Lindop, 11). Dick knew that to make a success out of himself, it would take a lot of hard work, so he took his fathers advice on going to school. In his junior year at high school, Dick decided that he wanted to study law and become a politician. After high school he went on to attend Whittier College, which was nearby his high school. Dick earned outstanding grades in college earning the number two ra!nking in his class (Lindop, 12). After Whittier, he went on to attend Duke University Law School where he received scholarships that paid his full tuition. He graduated Duke in 1937 earning the third ranking of his class of twenty-five
www.gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/37pnixo.html As Nixon became president, his primary task at hand was the Vietnam War. Nixon strongly wanted to end the war and started doing that by reducing the number of troops by 520,000 in three years (Robinson, 2000). As this happened, American casualties declined. Nixon knew he had to protect American troops somehow, so he approved a joint U.S. Vietnamese attack on Communist sanctuaries in 1970 (Robinson, 2000). In result of this attack, they seized many supplies, making sure that the Communists wouldn't mount an offensive attack on the Vietnamese. After several raids by the North Vietnamese, the American troops supported the South Vietnamese with all kinds of artillery. After this, many unannounced negotiating sessions took place between North Vietnamese diplomats and U.S. assistant Henry Kissinger. On Jan. 28, 1973, a cease-fire was ordered, allowing the U.S. to remove all of their troops from Vietnam. All of this was under the order of Richard Nixon. 1.) Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1973. "Nixon: The Fourth Year of His ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At age thirty-seven, Nixon became the youngest member of the Senate. After about two years, he was selected to run for the vice presidency position by General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Lindop, 16). The road to vice presidency would not be an easy one. Shortly after his nomination, Nixon recieved allegations that he was receiving from outside political friends and supporters (Lindop, 16). Newspapers headlined this story, almost ruining Nixon's political career almost before it started. These funds that he was receiving at the time were called the "Nixon Funds" which were said to have been used for personal expenses. After much talk and many problems that Nixon had to deal with, he finally secured a spot on primetime television to state his case. This speech that Nixon gave was later known as the "Checkers" speech. In this speech he talked about many things including Abraham Lincoln's views on poverty, and also imitated Franklin Roosevelt's reference to his dog Fala (Robinso! As Nixon entered office in the midst of all of the turmoil in our country, he vowed to changes Americas foreign policy. With the help of Nixon's national security advisor Henry Kissinger, they felt that they had to support America's interests in the long run, providing the people with a distribution of power throughout the world. Presidency." Congressional Quarterly. When Richard Nixon ran for president, his first attempt was unsuccessful. He ran against John F. Kennedy and gave him a close race. He failed in his first run. Out of 69 million votes cast, he lost by only 114,673 votes, making it one of the closest races in presidential election history (Library of Congress, 58). Kennedy's margin of victory in the electoral column was also small. Kennedy won the electoral vote 303 to 219, with Illinois and Texas being the deciding factors (Lindop, 17). After losing this race, he decided to run for governor of California, but again was unsuccessful. At this point, he pulled hi
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