Richard Nixon Qualities

Many people look at Richard Nixon, the 37Th President of The United States of America in a bad way because of the Watergate scandal and how he was paranoid about losing his re-election campaign. But nobody looks at the things that he did good in his presidency for example, signing treaties with Russia and engaging in talks with China, and getting us out of the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon showed some successes and failures in his Presidency based on his domestic policy, foreign policy and the positive and negatives of his leadership qualities. First, I would like to talk about his successes and failures in his domestic policies. First, one of his major successes in the US was that he changed the military into an all-volunteer military which has been in place to this day. This made the draft go away, which made people rejoice. Another success that he had was by signing Title IX, which prevented a gender bias throughout any University and College in America and allowed women to compete in collegiate sports. (R. Nixon Foundation) This ultimately allowed all women to go to college and forced all public institutions to not …show more content…
Some of the positives of Richard Nixon’s leadership qualities are that he is very confident when talking with other foreign powers and he wanted to get a lot of things done so that the US did not have to worry about tensions boiling over with Russia and China. He made the US people let out a sigh of relief when he first signed the SALT agreement and when he started talking to Mao Zedong in China. (History.state.gov) One of his bad qualities was that he was paranoid about losing the reelection campaign. Since he was paranoid, it led to him almost being impeached before he resigned because of the Watergate Scandal. (History.com) This paranoia showed that he doesn’t have much confidence in himself which is not a good quality in the eyes of the