When Richard Nixon became a president in 1968, the work has been cut out for him. ... In his election campaign, Richard Nixon stressed that he has a plan to end the war. ... Nixon took these movements very personal. ... The polls showed that Richard Nixon would have a hard time against his opponent Edmund Muskie. ... CIA's director Richard Helms, under Halderman instructions, told FBI to constraint the investigation as it may undermine some of CIA's cover operations. ...

• Word Count: 902
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... When Richard Nixon took over the White House, a majority of Americans thought the war was a mistake. ... The Nixon administration struggled with the media, protests, and anti-war sentiments until the end of the war, though the movement did eventually lose steam, according to Small. Melvin Small&#x...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Richard Nixon, the president of America at that time, quoted "We will fight any country that is fighting for Democracy." ... Trouble Inside America Johnson, the president at that time, couldn't face that thought of being the first American president to lose a war, so he resigned and pasted on his position to Richard Nixon. That was a bad time for Richard Nixon, having to control the Vietnam War that Johnson had started. ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In 1969, newly elected President Richard M. Nixon, aiming to achieve "peace with honor" in Vietnam, began to put his "Vietnamization" policy into place, which basically involved removing the number of American military soldiers in the country and transferring combat roles to the South Vietnamese. ... At the same times as all this, President Nixon resumed the secret bombing of North Vietnam and launched B-52 bombing raids over Cambodia, intending to wipe out NLF and North Vietnamese base camps along the border. ...

• Word Count: 510
• Approx Pages: 2

Promising an end to the war in Vietnam, Richard Nixon won a narrow victory in the election of 1968.On April 30th, 1970; President Nixon announced that American troops would be invading Cambodia to clean out North Vietnamese camps in the east region of the country. Nixon had the U.S. planes secretly bombing Cambodia for a year but now he believed that he had to invade to keep the U.S. troops leaving South Vietnam safe. ... not expressly forbid bombing, however, so Nixon continued the air strikes on Cambodia until 1973. Nixon's continued reliance on expanded air war to provide cover for ...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Richard Nixon was in office and his scandal was to influence politics for years to come. ... She probably would have thought President Nixon to be one of the biggest moron ever to live, and she most likely would have been out on the streets. ...

• Word Count: 505
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Richard Nixon became president and announced a new policy, known as Vietnamization. ... When America felt as if their boys were coming home Nixon shocked everyone when he told the nation we were going to invade Cambodia to clear out the North Vietnamese military supply centers. ... In March 1972, North Vietnam started invading South Vietnam again and Nixon ordered a bombing raid on North Vietnam. ...

• Word Count: 1026
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School