"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
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.
forced him to resign his office. .
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; but he did pledge to.
end the war if he was elected. Wallace talked about the issue the most. In.
conclusion of the election, Nixon won 32 states, Humphrey 13 plus the District of.
Columbia, and Wallace 5 in the South. Humphery and Nixon came close with.
31,770,237 to 31,270,533 and 9,906,141 for Wallace. Nixon received 301.
electoral votes, to 191 for Humphrey and 46 for Wallace. .
President Richard Nixon inherited a country at war, aggravation, and.
violence. His goal was to get all US troops out of Vietnam. He did reduce US.
troops from 550,000 in 1969 to about 30,000 in 1972. Nixon did not immediately.
set a date for the withdrawal of all US troops; he said that the United States.
must leave Vietnam in a way "that gives the South Vietnamese a reasonable.
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Richard M. ... In many respects Richard Nixon was a good president, and undoubtedly had positive effects on America. ... Richard Nixon was a very capable and strong president who had greatness within his grasp but never reached it. ... Richard M. ... Richard Nixon and his family were members of the Society of Friends, more commonly known as Quakers. ...
Richard M. ... His parents named him Richard after the Richard the Lionhearted. ... Richard was the second Nixon brother, born on January 9th, 1913. ... On November 5th, 1968, Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States. ... Richard Nixon had won by barely half a million votes more then Humphrey. ...
What comes to mind when you think of Richard Nixon? ... Overshadowed by the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon had a tumultuous childhood that included poverty and multiple deaths. ... When Richard Nixon was a child, he was not an aristocrat; his family was not in a position to belong in the upper class. ... Richard Nixon was born on January 9th, 1913, to Francis and Hannah Nixon in Yorba Linda, California, and was the second oldest of five boys. ... Richard Nixon faced many obstacles in his childhood. ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Biography Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (1969-74). ... Despite the economic difficulties and emotional tensions of the Nixon household, young Richard excelled in school, graduating second in his class from Whittier College (1934) and third in his class from Duke University law school (1937). ... Nixon's writings include three autobiographical works, Six Crises (1962), RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978), and In the Arena (1990), and books on U.S. foreign policy--The Real War (1980), Real Peace (1983), No More Vietnams (1985), 19...
It is located in Yorba Linda and built in front of Richard Nixon's birthplace. ... I watch a short 28 minute film title "Never give up": Richard Nixon in the Arena." ... It also had exhibits which showed how Richard Nixon worked his way up in the political Arena. ... The exhibit also has the phone, which Richard Nixon used to talk to Apollo XI while it was on the moon. ... Behind the theater is the original birthplace of Richard Frank Nixon. ...
Nixon's Foreign Policy Richard Milhous Nixon was elected President of the United States in 1968. ... Nixon tightly controlled his foreign policy. ... Following Nixon's reelection, Nixon temporarily abandoned diplomacy. ... Upon signing the treaty Richard Nixon told the world "The people of South Vietnam have been guaranteed the right to determine their own future, without outside interference."" ... As Kissinger toasted La Duc Tho with words of peace in January 1973 and as Richard Nixon addressed the nation with news of an honorable peace in Vietnam, Both men knew that as...
On September 23, 1952 Richard Milhous Nixon sat down to address the largest television audience ever amassed by a politician (Gardener 18). ... Nixon's future in politics was on the line. ... After only six years in politics as the California state Governor, Richard Nixon was chosen by Dwight Eisenhower as his running-mate in the Presidential election (Voorhis 220). ... While on the campaign trail in Pomona, California Nixon received word that a liberal east-coast newspaper had published an article suggesting he had received upwards of $16,000 in donations for his personal use ("Richa...
President Richard M. ... The break-in ultimately caused the demise of President Richard Nixon. ... Nixon was only 39 years old at the time. ... President Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States on August 9, 1974. ... President Nixon died on April 22, 1994. ...
