Spiro Agnew And Nixon Rhetorical Analysis

In the year of 1960 Nixon was selected for the Republican nomination to run for office, and nixon was up against Cabot Lodge. He had a campaign against a team of senators including JFK and Lyndon Johnson. Nixon then lost to Kennedy, but it was a close, he lost by one hundred thousand votes out of the sixty-eight million cast. Soon as Nixon was defeated he then returned to Los Angeles to return to law. After the defeat by President Johnson. Nixon soo wondered that he is a serious presidential contender. In the year 1968 he won the presidential nomination. He soon picked Spiro Agnew as his competitor. Agnew and Richard ran against Muskie and Humphrey, the democrats. Nixon soon won the presidency and will head to the white house. He took the oath of office in the year 1969. Nixon spoke his first speech as a president. He brought …show more content…
After a few months the American people were concerned with the election in 1972. Nixon defeated George S. McGovern with the biggest landslide victories in the history of American elections. Despite the deal breaking victory, Nixon would soon be forced to become the first President to resign in office. The watergate scandal was illegal activities by Richard and his partners that helped him wiretap and burglarize the democratic party at the Watergate office complex in Washington. Washington soon had to respond to the allegations of other crimes committed both before and after the break in. The five men that were involved in the burglary were arrested and charged on June 17, 1972. Richard soon heard of these actions and tried to cover up the administration's involvement. Nixon also gave the FBI secret cash payments to the Watergate burglars in effort to prevent the situation from getting out of hand. Multiple major newspapers investigated the burglary. Out of all the newspaper companies, The Washington Post and the newsrepotes, Bernstein and Woodward got all their