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1969–1976: The Presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. President Richard M. Nixon assumed office on January 20, 1969, as an experienced practitioner of foreign policy. He came into the presidency with clear views on the broad objectives of his administration in foreign relations, and with a determination to control major foreign ...
Nov 13, 2009 · 1968. Richard Nixon elected president. Winning one of the closest elections in U.S. history, Republican challenger Richard Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Because of the strong ...
The Republicans turned to Richard Nixon, who had made a remarkable political recovery following his defeats in the 1960 presidential election and the 1962 gubernatorial race in California. Nixon chose Spiro Agnew, the little‐known governor of Maryland, as his running mate. While Humphrey defended the Johnson Administration's Vietnam policy ...
The Meaning of Communism to Americans: Study Paper by Richard M. Nixon, Vice President, United States of America August 24, 1960 Speech by Vice President Richard M. Nixon, VFW Convention, Detroit, MI
Richard Milhous Nixon has always fascinated me. He’s the first American president whose time in office I can really remember. Ever since the days that I dashed home from school in the early 1970s to watch the televised Senate Watergate Committee hearings, I have wondered how America’s 37th president could have turned out to be such a complicated mixture of brilliance, paranoia, and corruption.
Sep 19, 2017 · Richard Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994) EnlargeRichard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 on the lemon ranch of his parents, Francis and Hannah Nixon in Yorba Linda, California and raised in nearby Whittier. He attended Whittier College and Duke University School of Law and then joined a law firm in his hometown. He and Patricia "Pat" Ryan met in 1938 at rehearsal for a ...
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( / ˈdʒɛrəld / JERR-əld; [1] born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973, and as ...
