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Richard Nixon's Impact on American History
Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, Orange County, California. He won two scholarships to Harvard and Yale, but due to lack of funds was forced to reject them. He instead enrolled in a local Quaker school, Whittier College, where he was a model student. In 1934 he graduated second in his class and entered Duke University School of Law, North Carolina.
He returned to California in 1937 and was admitted to the Bar, working for the law offices of Wingert and Bewley, became a full partner in the firm in 1938. He managed the United States Navy in August 1942 was assigned as official naval control of passengers for the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command. Service received two stars, but saw no combat action; lieutenant commander in October 1945 and resigned his commission on January 1, 1946. He ran and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives elections in November 1946.
He first came to national recognition when his investigation of the House-An American Activities Committee (Huaco) broke the deadlock in the Alger Hiss case. Nixon became the polarization in the conscience of America, was a hero to the enemies of Roosevelt, but an enemy of the fans because Rossevelt Hiss had been an advisor to FDR. In the elections of 1950, Nixon was elected to the Senate to defeat a Democrat in the House in a historic land. Due to its strong anti-communist stance, Eisenhower chose him to be the Vice-Presidential candidate on the Republican National Convention in July 1952.
During the campaign, was indicted by the New York Post to accepting private donations, a claim he strongly denies. The Republicans won the ticket, Nixon expanded the scope of the entry. In 1960 he launched his campaign for president of the United States of America. Their challenge was Democratic John F. Kennedy.
The race was close, is increasingly being defined in the first televised presidential debate, Nixon was recovering from the disease and seems uncomfortable in comparison with compound JFK, however many people listening on radio Nixon to be the winner. Kennedy, amid accusations of electoral fraud, he won with the scarcest of margins. Nixon returned to California, practiced law and wrote the best selling political memoirs Six Crisis.
He ran for governor of California in 1962, losing to Pat Brown and leads many to cancel his political career. However, re-entered the arena, throwing his hat into the ring for the presidential campaign of 1968. That the model itself as a figure of stability, appealing to socially conservative Americans themselves against the bite hippie counterculture, won the nomination.
Then attacked the Democrats in charge of allowing the U.S. to lose its nuclear superiority, also promised to put an end to the Vietnam War. Won, completing a memorable comeback from the political wilderness. He set out to develop relations with China, pursuing arms control agreements with the Soviet Union, activate a peace process in the Middle East, U.S. ensure that inflation slowed and implement welfare reform. However, his most pressing task is to address the Vietnam War.
He approved a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia with the intention of destroying the headquarters of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam. Continued the implementation of the Nixon doctrine, which was a strategy of replacing U.S. troops with Vietnamese troops in Vietnam. His most bombing campaigns in Laos and Cambodia led to widespread protests at home. He was reelected president in the 1972 campaign one of the largest landslides in American political history.
Nixon had an aggressive foreign policy that included the hits with the Soviet Union, China and the Middle East, but was plagued by a weak national economy and the national protests over the continued war in Vietnam.
After his 1972 re-election, his administration was consumed by the Watergate scandal, the name of the hotel and office complex where thieves recruited by the Nixon reelection campaign were caught in a botched attempt to bug the offices of the Democratic National Convention.
Nixon played in the scandal as mere politics, and his government denounced the story misleading, however, the FBI confirmed the allegations, senior partners began to resign and many face persecution. Lose political support by the day and almost certain to face trial, Nixon resigned from his post on August 9, 1974, but never admitted to a crime, acknowledging only that he committed errors of trial. On September 8, 1974 President Ford granted Nixon a full pardon, ending any possibility of indictment.
Nixon returned to California to write his memoirs and consulted a number of privately by their successors, but his reputation as a disgrace President dog followed.
In 1977, he began to embark on a public relations effort return, reunion with the British journalist David Frost, whom he paid six thousand dollars for a series of sit-down interviews. The first ten books he wrote in his retirement, was published at this time, allowing Nixon to get out of retirement to embark on their guestbook. Later he embarked on tours to Egypt, the Soviet Union, Japan and China. He won respect as a statesman in the field of external relations and has been consulted by both Democratic and Republican successors to the presidency.
President of the United States did not do much in the national office as Nixon did, he appeared in the Republican party's presidential ticket five times, he assured the Republican nomination three times and was twice elected to the position of President and Vice-President. Along with Ronald Reagan, was the main builder of the modern Republican party. Was instrumental in the expulsion of the Soviet Union from the Middle East, opened relations with China and improving relations with the Soviet Union. Decentralized to the national government for revenue sharing, ended school segregation, ended the gold standard, reducing the crime rate and was a pioneer in environmental policy.
However, its policies remain controversial in Vietnam and its main electoral mandate was to end the war. He allowed the gradual withdrawal of the 500,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam, but the war continued to drag. Some say that Nixon sold the South Vietnamese government, while others argue that it unnecessarily prolonged the war by negotiating terms that were favorable to the objectives that the United States has no chance of ever being reached.
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