Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal
2022
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- 1. Part One: The Will to Win Mar 17, 2019
- Richard Nixon is raised by a family with modest means with a childhood beset by tragedy.
- 2. Part Two: Nixon's the One Mar 31, 2019
- Nixon loses one of the closest presidential elections in history to John F. Kennedy.
- 3. Part Three: Storm Clouds Apr 7, 2019
- Richard Nixon enters office; anti-war movement gains strength; the president suspects a conspiracy.
During the campaign, Nixon was first called "Tricky Dick" by his opponents for his campaign tactics. In the Senate, Nixon took a prominent position in opposing global communism, traveling frequently and speaking out against it.
According to About.com’s Steve Smith, the nickname “Tricky Dick” for Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was a response to smear campaign he ran against Helen Douglas when both were competing for a Senate seat in 1950. He was first referred to as “Tricky Dick” in a 1950 newspaper campaign funded by a Democratic ...
Featuring never-before-seen footage, 'Tricky Dick' explores Richard Nixon's life and times -- tracking his rise, fall, incredible comeback and political destruction.
After his campaign distributed “pink sheets” comparing Douglas’s voting record to that of Vito Marcantonio, a left-wing representative from New York, the Independent Review, a small Southern California newspaper, nicknamed him “Tricky Dick.” The epithet later became a favourite among Nixon’s opponents.
Tricky Dick: With Dwight Chapin, Richard Nixon. Tricky Dick is a four-part CNN Original Series, produced by Left/Right, that explores Richard Nixon's life and times; tracking his rise, fall, incredible comeback and political destruction.
Tricky Dick’s rehabilitation, Newsweek promised us in 1986, was nigh. But it never came. No Republican Party convention ever invited him to speak. Retrospective rankings of our chief...
Richard Nixon. U.S. Presidents. Richard Nixon. 37th president of the United States. Fast Facts. NAME: Richard Milhous Nixon. NICKNAME: Tricky Dick. BORN: January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda,...
