honor now beckons America-the chance to lead the world at last out of the valley

of turmoil and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the

dawn of civilization.”1 These were words spoken by Richard Milhous Nixon. He

was the thirty-seventh president to take office. He was a skilled negotiator and

had a great understanding of foreign affairs. He probably is remembered most

for his achievements in foreign policy and the famous Watergate scandal that

Richard Nixon ran for president in 1960 against John F. Kennedy, but lost

the election. Not giving up hope, he ran again in 1968. His campaign strategies

were to unite the Republican party and he appealing to voters in border,

southern, and western states by enunciating conservative policies that

distinguished the GOP from the liberalism of the Democrats and the more

conservative views of the American Independent party. His opponents of this

election were Democrat Hubert F. Humpherey and Gov. George Wallace of

Alabama, candidate for the American Independent party. Nixon decided that he

did not want the Vietnam war to become a campaign issue;

intentions to a group of student protesters that were camped outside the Lincoln

Later the Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States and him

end the war if he was elected. Wallace talked about the issue the most. In

tapes revealed that he wanted to get revenge on several of his enemies. A

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