Richard Nixon And The Watergate Scandal

On January 9th, 1913 in Yorba, Linda California, Frank and Hannah Milhous Nixon gave birth to their second child, Richard Milhous Nixon. Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America and most famous for the Watergate Scandal in Washington District Columbia on June 17th, 1973. Nixon passed away on April 22th, 1994, in Manhattan, New York due to a stroke.

Richard Nixon and his family lived a very challenging early life. Two of his brothers past away due to separate illnesses as Richard was a child and they lived a poor life. He said,"We were poor, but the glory of it was we didn't know it." This impacted him in his childhood, particularly in high school, in which he did excelled in school and was granted a Harvard scholarship,

This caused Nixon and Eisenhower to win on a grand scale. He was Eisenhower’s Vice President for 2 terms and in 1960, Nixon won the Republican Presidential Nomination. He ran against John Fitzgerald Kennedy and lost. The race between Nixon and Kennedy was considered the closest Presidential Election in American history. It was also the first time the presidential debates were nationally televised. After the loss he moved to Los Angeles and lost becoming California's governor in 1962. A bit later in 1968, Nixon ran in the Presidential Race along with his VP (Vice President) Spiro T. Agnew. He beat Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace. They won the election, and after the Inauguration the duo had one goal- bring the nation together. Nixon and Agnew did just that. During the time Nixon and Agnew took to office, the nation was divided with racial injustice, the women civil rights movement began, Americans were worried about Soviet Union spies and Vietnam War. During his presidency, Nixon accomplished lots. He introduced Vietnamization, which was a policy that would gradually withdraw the countries

Watergate Scandal and his commonly used tactic to expose his opponents on things that might not be necessarily true helped open eyes of not only Americans but voters internationally, about what happens behind the scenes in the government. Voters don’t believe the candidates of elections as easy as they did and will likely double guess their integrity, which is a good thing to not be so gullible. Richard Nixon did several things that changed society in the United States, and North America Nixon made many policies like Vietnamization, Limited Nuclear power, and made many formal diplomatic relationships with powerful countries like the Soviet Union (Russia) and People's Republic of China (China) that is helpful even in 2018. He lowered rates of segregation and made women working in his administration rate higher. He was the first president to resign from office in all of history. Nixon had one of the biggest landslide victories to McGovern and closest loss to John. F. Kennedy. So yes, Nixon deserves to be remembered for all the historical things he has