Pat Nixon

On January 19, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a Quaker home in Yorba Linda, California (Aronson 8). He attended East Whittier High School and joined the debate team, eventually becoming one of the school’s best debaters. His teacher noted that Nixon “had this ability to kind of slide around an argument instead of meeting it head-on” (Barr 12). His senior year, Nixon ran for president of his class. He lost the election, and in his memoirs, he would refer to this as his first political…

did president Nixon want the tapes and documents? According to Gerald R. (History.com) it was made in 2015 no specific date. This subject is mostly about the steps of the Watergate Scandal. There were several burglars invloed. The scandal took place on June 17 1972. In August 1974. During Richard Nixon's reelection campaign they got caught wiretapping the whole thing. Six weeks after Nixon resigned Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president, he pardoned Nixon for any…

Their reports became the country’s insight into what was really going on in the White House. To this day, the Watergate scandal and the names of the two men who broke it wide open, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, are as well known as President Nixon, the first and only president to resign from his post. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein positively influenced the United States in politics and presidential power, as reflected in the literature of the late 20th century.…

“Cheerful”, “invigorating”, “large-hearted magnanimity” - these are the remarks Margaret Thatcher delivers to the American people in her eulogy honoring their former president and her close friend, Ronald Reagan. Her familiar tone, repetition, and use of juxtaposition help commemorate Reagan's life and legacy: hard work and devotion towards his country. In the passage, Thatcher begins with “ We [the American citizens and herself] have lost great president, a great American, and a great man”.…

abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.” – Former President Richard Nixon. The impact a short speech can have on a cultured society is surprising where a man’s thoughts drastically changed people’s lives on a larger scale than any political policy or agenda in the past 40 years. Just 6 short months after his speech Nixon managed to sign his policy into law in January of 1972. He started a literal “War on Drugs”. This marks the start of…

Eisenhower was president during some significant events throughout the civil rights movement however; his actual role was rather limited. Due to the fact that he had strong beliefs that Federal government should not interfere with state government also, that civil rights groups worked for themselves rather than the good of the country. First of all, in 1954 a black man wanted his daughter to go to an all-white school, which was not allowed because of segregation, he took his case to court. Chief…

Introduction: Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United states. Through his life he accomplished many great feats. Ronald Reagan was a man that was truly talented in many different aspects. He was involved in many different platforms as an actor, governor, and finally a president. As an actor he worked as president of the Screen Actor’s Guild. There he met Nancy (Davis) Reagan, his future wife. Throughout his entire career as an actor he appeared in more than 50 films. Soon after his…

In 1968, Richard Nixon won the election of President and took over a country embroiled in a fierce containment of Communism, and an ongoing war in Vietnam. Once in office, Nixon began to establish himself differently than his predecessors. Nixon who would work closely with his top advisor, Kissinger, set out to redefine American foreign policy. There were three major foreign policies that Nixon and Kissinger established, which began to “cool” off the heated Cold War. The first of these…

shootings at Kent State justifiable? The shootings that happened at Kent State were not expected to happen, but they did. The protest got way out of hand when the protesters set the ROTC building on fire. “On April 30, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of Vietnam War effort. This provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country.…

Form the Town Hall interview on Fox News with Donald Trump and Sean Hannity, many great topics were discussed. As the interview started, Trump was asked by Hannity, how he is a common sense consecutive? Trump’s answer was that, he declared himself as a common sense consecutive because he always care about the military, he believe on a fair and stable health care, and also believe on a fair budget. In addition, he said, one can take an example on his company. It is a stable company with a very…