Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States. The first and so far, the only, President to resign from office. From his poor origins, he rose to an astounding height before his equally astounding fall. In six years, he went from oblivion to fame, winning the congressional race of 1946, national preeminence in the Alger Hiss spy case of 1948, a Senate seat in 1950, vice president in 1952 and finally, after losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy in 1960, the presidency in 1969. Having attained such prominence in a very short time, Richard Nixon was and still is the most controversial president in American history.
Born Richard Milhous Nixon on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California, the second of five children to Frank and …show more content…
A woman of Irish decent. They were both cast in a Whittier Little Theater Group Production, The Dark Tower (Infoplease editors). She dated Richard Nixon for two years before finally agreeing to marry him. The two married on June 21, 1940 and went on to have two children, Tricia and Julia.
Richard Nixon’s high ambitions led to the decision of moving to Washington, D.C., in search of a more paying and gratifying job. He later found a job with Franklin Roosevelt’s Office of Price Administration. He was disappointed with the New Deal’s big-government and bureaucratic red tape which resulted in him leaving public service and enlisting in the Navy (Biography editors). Richard Nixon was Quaker and in the 1940’s, Quakers were excused from military service. He served as an aviation ground officer in the Pacific and surged to the rank of lieutenant commander before resigning in January …show more content…
He won the republican nomination with little opposition. His adversary was democrat John F. Kennedy, Senator of Massachusetts. Television played a huge role in the 1960 presidential election. Four debates were scheduled between Nixon and Kennedy (Britannica editors). In one televised debate, Nixon was just recovering from the flu and looked tired, pale and sweaty in comparison to Kennedy’s tan, poised and well-rested opponent. Kennedy won the election by the narrowest of margins, only 120,000 votes. Nixon was convinced he had lost because the media favored the more handsome and richer Kennedy over him. In 1961, he wrote the bestselling book, Six Crises. In the book, he documented his political career as a congressman, senator and vice president (Biography editors). He unenthusiastically ran for Governor of California but lost to incumbent Governor Edmund G. Brown by considerable margins. He announced his retirement from politics in a press conference where he told reporters they wouldn’t have him to kick around anymore. He moved to New York and continued to practice
Born Richard Milhous Nixon on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California, the second of five children to Frank and …show more content…
A woman of Irish decent. They were both cast in a Whittier Little Theater Group Production, The Dark Tower (Infoplease editors). She dated Richard Nixon for two years before finally agreeing to marry him. The two married on June 21, 1940 and went on to have two children, Tricia and Julia.
Richard Nixon’s high ambitions led to the decision of moving to Washington, D.C., in search of a more paying and gratifying job. He later found a job with Franklin Roosevelt’s Office of Price Administration. He was disappointed with the New Deal’s big-government and bureaucratic red tape which resulted in him leaving public service and enlisting in the Navy (Biography editors). Richard Nixon was Quaker and in the 1940’s, Quakers were excused from military service. He served as an aviation ground officer in the Pacific and surged to the rank of lieutenant commander before resigning in January …show more content…
He won the republican nomination with little opposition. His adversary was democrat John F. Kennedy, Senator of Massachusetts. Television played a huge role in the 1960 presidential election. Four debates were scheduled between Nixon and Kennedy (Britannica editors). In one televised debate, Nixon was just recovering from the flu and looked tired, pale and sweaty in comparison to Kennedy’s tan, poised and well-rested opponent. Kennedy won the election by the narrowest of margins, only 120,000 votes. Nixon was convinced he had lost because the media favored the more handsome and richer Kennedy over him. In 1961, he wrote the bestselling book, Six Crises. In the book, he documented his political career as a congressman, senator and vice president (Biography editors). He unenthusiastically ran for Governor of California but lost to incumbent Governor Edmund G. Brown by considerable margins. He announced his retirement from politics in a press conference where he told reporters they wouldn’t have him to kick around anymore. He moved to New York and continued to practice