... ended. He himself told reporters the next day, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." In the next few years he worked as a partner in a New York law firm and traveled the country and the world. The nomination and overwhelming defeat of Sen. Barry GOLDWATER as the Republican presidential candidate in 1964 encouraged Nixon to try again for the presidency in 1968. He obtained the nomination on the ... (Mao Tse-tung)--thus reversing the U.S. policy of not recognizing the Communist government. In 1973, after four years of waging w...

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... " to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was in desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North Vietnamese. This was actually the beginning of two wars. The first was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime which was aided by the United States at the time. During this second war the United States stepped in to take the place of France against the northern based Communists and the southern insurgents. The United States ... bomb the North Vietnam area. During the course of the war Johnson relied heavily on the...

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... of his career is put on the Watergate scandal. While he was in office Nixon worked with China and the Soviet Union to increase stability and decrease tensions between the "super powers". He held summit meetings with the Soviets which yielded a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. He ended United States involvement in Indochina. In 1974 he had Henry Kissinger, ... Vietnam with the ability to defend it self. Meanwhile criticism from the anti-war movement and the media was increasingly growing with such things as the Cambodian incursion in 1970 and the bombing of North Vietnam in May ...

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