Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States of America, had a very challenging and political life. Starting off young in the political world, Nixon had many successful and disappointing times throughout his journey. With a low beginning on the political spectrum, Nixon slowly rose to success in winning the position as President of the United States. With his major success came downfalls and failures. Although Richard Nixon’s presidency ended in lies and scandals, his long road in politics was paved through his hard work and determination as a young student, overcoming many obstacles along the way as a congressman and as the Vice President of the United States.
Richard Nixon despite Watergate had a very successful presidency both in the domestic and foreign circles. In the area of Foreign Policy, Nixon had some of his greatest victories when he ended America’s long standing involvement in Vietnam, opened American industry up to new markets by bringing china out of its self-imposed isolation, and taking the first major steps to non-proliferation by signing the SALT 1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) with the Soviet Union. After promising to end the war in Vietnam during the campaign Nixon escalated the war for a time with massive bombing raids in Cambodia and sending troops into Laos, but ultimately ended the war in the early 1970’s. Nixon was president during the cold war so the biggest threat to America and USSR its greatest enemy. The biggest fear among many was the threat of nuclear attack on either side so when it was announced that Nixon would be signing the SALT 1 Treaty with primer Leonid Brezhnev that would limit the use and creation of Nuclear weapons.
Some might argue that Nixon’s presidency might only be remembered by the Watergate scandal while others remember him for ending Vietnam War. As time has gone by many people have written articles and books
Now that we have talked about how films portray President Kennedy and President Johnson, next we will look at how films portray President Nixon. The film All the President’s Men was released back in 1976 and was based on a non-fictional book that was released in 1974 with the same name as the film. The Authors of the book and the main characters in the book and film, were the two reporters from the Washington Post that were investigating the Watergate scandal in which they had uncovered that President Richard Nixon was involved in the scandal and was also involved with trying to cover it up which lead to his resignation. The names of those two reporters/authors are Robert “Bob” Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman).
The relationship between Richard and Pat Nixon wasn’t a very public one but they did support one another and after Watergate they took care of each other before she passed away. Even though she was “rated one of our nation’s most admired women,” not too many people knew about her. Richard fell in love with Pat the first night he met her. This was a overall pretty happy and affectionate marriage. Pat noted that he had a wonderful sense of humor.
President Richard Nixon is remembered as the president who misused his presidential power because the Watergate Scandal was one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. The court case reached high media because there were many accusations of the president having some type of involvement with the break-in in the Democratic National
It seems that there are three main points in this section, including The Watergate Scandal, escalating the Vietnam War and the slight rise and huge fall of us return. During the election of 1968, the republican party felt as if they had no choose but let Richard Nixon return and try again as president. Nixon made a huge promise to end the Vietnam war so he was elected as the president again. Nixon started off with two positives which were the Woodstock festival did not turn into a bloodbath and the celebration of the first man on the moon. I found it very funny how Nixon thought it was best to escalated the war instead of making it smaller.
Richard M. Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States. He was previous to his election, a member of the U.S Representatives and was a U.S Senator for California. As he came into office he strived to better our current economy and cultural divides that were at main concern during this present time. Many overlooked the things Nixon did for the United States through his presidency as he expanded foreign relations, set a foundation for environmental regulations and amazingly improved women's rights. Overall, Nixon had did some amazing things for this country but his overall efforts affected the United States in a awful way.
Although he did do good deeds, he is remembered for mostly the bad. Nixon is notorious for taking part in the Watergate Scandal. The Watergate Scandal is when Nixon’s associates broke into the Democratic Associates National Committee at Watergate Hotel. Richard Nixon was convicted for participation in trying to cover up the criminal activity. His impeachment was set in play for April 1974, but Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.
President Nixon’s success’ extend beyond dealing with domestic affairs and improving foreign policies. As President he implemented countless environmental acts that have drastically enhanced the quality of the planet and the life of those on it, has improved the status of both gender and racial equality, and is, in many ways, responsible for the policies that have renovated the nation’s political process into a system that gives the public more access to important information and, therefore, more power as citizens of the United States of America. Nixon has created a legacy that will outlive any memory of
Early Friday morning, December 2, Nixon called me. He was so caught up in what he was about to say that he forgot to greet me with the usual hello but plunged immediately into the story of what had happened to Mrs. Parks the night before. I listened, deeply shocked, as he described the humiliating incident. "We have taken this type of thing too long already," Nixon concluded, his voice trembling. "I feel that the time has come to boycott the buses.
• Richard Nixon addresses the crowd on August 8, 1968, during the presidental campaign in order to persoade them to elect him as President of the United States • He states that he is determined to win the elections, despite the fact that he lost 16 years before in front of a strong candidate, Dwight D Eisenhower, who was lying ill in the hospital at the time the 1968 elections were going on • Persuasive in his speech, he wants the Republican Party to become the leader, which holds all the qalities America needs to recover from the past times • He congradulates his rnning mate, as well as all those who have fought to obtain the nominaton, including Governor Reagan, Governor Rockfeller and Governor Romney • He also says that the 1968 elections
Nixon is widely recognized for his successful détente foreign policy that improved U.S. relations with Russia and China. Despite his achievements, his true motives and methods of achieving success were questionable and harmful. His agenda for Vietnam was hidden from the public, as was his Southern Strategy. He was not truly invested in environmental reform, and proved to be a truly contradictory president. Scholars agree that his public actions and private ideas often opposed each other (“Impact and Legacy”).
He served as a U.S. Representative and Senator in California, the vice president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, and eventually the 37th president of the United States once elected in 1969. His win against both Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace sparked the progress for some of Nixon’s many accomplishments while in office, many being part of his remarkable and innovative environmental
Richard Nixon (1913-94), was an American politician who served as the 37th U.S. President, is best remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. Nixon stepped down in 1974, halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal. A former Republican congressman and U.S. senator from California, he served two terms as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) in the 1950s. In 1960, Nixon lost his bid for the presidency in a close race with Democrat John F. Kennedy (1917-63). He ran for the White House again in 1968 and won.
