Also out of the ashes of Goldwater's defeat, came several men who would grow the radical conservative movement and create and implement the strategy that would defeat the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); elect Ronal Reagan Governor of California and President of the United States, and take control of the Republican Party. ...
Nixon journey to the White House began in a small, musty corner in Southern California called Yorba Linda. ... Richard Nixon attended public school in Whittier, California, and went to the a Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he majored in history. ...
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1913, the second of five sons of Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon ( ) The Nixon family was seemingly plagued by a history of early deaths. ... After public school Nixon went on to study at Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he majored in history ( ).This is where Nixon first started becoming politically active, he was president of the freshman class, star of the debate team and in his senior year became the Southern California Intercollegiate Extemporaneous Speaking champion and class President ( ). ... In the 1946 election...
Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. One would establish strict limits on the President's power to take the country into war without specific authorization by Congress, in pursuance of the power to declare war given to the Congress by the Con...
