This 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. ... Richard Nixon ran for president in 1960 against John F. ... President Richard Nixon inherited a country at war, aggravation, and violence. ... Nixon decided on many domestic issues. ... Nixon was reelected in 1972. ...

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In the Presidential Election of 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhouse Nixon were in a series of debates that were different from past debates. ... (The First Kennedy Nixon Debate, p.2) After Kennedy was finished Smith announced for Vice President Nixon to give his opening statement. Nixon agreed with Kennedy about the U.S. having to move. ... (The First Kennedy-Nixon Debate, p.4). ... (The First Kennedy-Nixon Debate, p.5) Nixon answered by giving very specific examples of what recommendations he made to the President about policy making. ...

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Nixon's Foreign Policy: A Global Balance of Power Period: 7 Background Richard Nixon entered office in the midst of one of the gravest foreign policy crises in American history. ... In fact it was clear that the Soviet Union was Nixon's biggest partner towards peace. ... When Nixon announced to the world his new plan for foreign affairs, it became known as the Nixon Doctrine. ... Nixon and Kissinger made their new policy not only necessary, but also desirable. ... Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913 - 1962 Stephen E. ...

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The Money led them to find a safe full of money that was to go to the Re-election of President Nixon. ... The 1972 approached and ended with Richard Nixon the victor with one of the biggest political landslides in US History. ... After that President Nixon goes on national T.V and professes he is not a crook. ... Also during this time president Nixon called for cuts in welfare and education. ... In the early 1970's President Nixon visited Russia. ...

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From Washington being one of the best presidents to Richard Nixon abusing of his power by wiretapping, we take a look into the background of each presidents' presidency, and discover what the motives were behind each decision that was made; whether they were good or bad, or successful or ended up in a loss. ... Take Nixon's impeachment for example. ...

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Billy Graham once used a television conversation with Cardinal Richard Cushing to mend the relationship between Evangelicals and Roman Catholics. ... In the Nixon presidential archives there is a letter to former President Nixon from a woman requesting the 7. ... president -- and gives the prayer at Richard Nixon's inauguration the next day. ...

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Affirmative Action in the Nixon Administration In 1969, when Richard Nixon took office, affirmative action was still poorly defined and not widely supported. It was under Nixon that the first official affirmative action program (the Philadelphia Plan) was put forward. The unemployment rate of young blacks was high, and Nixon believed that affirmative action could be part of the solution. ... As Nixon once affirmed, "We would not impose quotas, but would require federal contractors to show 'affirmative action' to meet the goals of increasing minority employment." ... Under the Ni...

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, A President to Remember Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. His parents, David and Ida met when they were students at Lane University. They got married in 1885. David's dad was a farmer, and for his wedding gift he gave...

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Martha Washington 1731-1802 George Washington's wife was the first to be given the title "lady" by the press, as in "Lady Washington," and the first wife of a president to appear on U.S. postage stamp.   Abigail Adams 1744-1818 John Adams' wife urged her husband to "remember the ladies" when he w...

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Richard Nixon took full advantage, exercising the veto power extensively. ... Since the mishaps of Nixon's reign, congress has tightened control, at the expense of the presidents ability to lead with such previous effectiveness. ... Also, in 1973, congress proposed to subject the OMB director and deputy director to Senate confirmation, despite the disapproval of the Nixon administration, who insisted the senate scrutiny of appointees should not extend to the inner circle of presidential advisors. ...

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The focus in these stories is most often placed on the central political figures of the actual events; Army generals, senators, or presidents, such as in the movie Nixon. ... Already biased against President Richard Nixon, Robert Redford seized the opportunity to produce a film highlighting the exploits of two adventuresome, young journalists seeking to get to the bottom of the Watergate scandal. ...

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Korea has earned the distinction of being called by many authors the bloodiest campaign ever fought during the Cold War. Not officially a war at all Korea was the first conflict of its kind, it changed the policy of how America would fight its future wars. American involvement in the Korean conf...

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In order for him to get the best minds of the country to work for him, he worked with Presidential assistants, Bill Moyers and Richard N Goodwin, who helped to create separate tasks forces that worked on different subjects (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) ... Finally, after President Nixon's inauguration in 1968, Johnson concluded that it was time to retire and head back to Texas to write his Presidential Memoirs, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963 to 1969 (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) ...

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On the same day a declaration of independence from Britain was proposed to Congress by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, which was June 6, 1776, he also proposed "That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation." ...

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A new problem has risen in the thick of the on-going war. President Bush approved a plan that allows the government to try suspected terrorists in private, without the normal laws of a fair trial. Many people living in all corners of the world are now questioning if this lives up to America's repu...

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In the closest Presidential election since John Kennedy edged out Richard Nixon in 1960, George Walker Bush beat Al Gore in a hotly disputed race where the winner was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. ...

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