Richard Nixon

operations including and related to drug trafficking into American cities. Each new president, for the most part, has continued the programs of their predecessors. The naissance of the government’s anti-drug program began under the presidency of Richard Nixon. He set the ball in motion by classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug and by directing his government agencies to target black social activists. President Gerald Ford stoked the flames by pushing for and achieving mandatory minimum…

unwinnable war”. In the same decade, Terrorists attacked the Olympic games, which in that year was in Munich. Richard Nixon was almost impeached for the Watergate Scandal, several men broke into the Watergate Complex in Washington DC. This happened while Nixon was running for re-election, the men were caught because of a single piece of tape, which was used to prevent a door from closing. Nixon was almost impeached, and shortly after, he resigned. Air travel became more readily available,…

States to not have an election and run in office for president or vice-president. After Richard Nixon resigned, Ford took over. Before Gerald Ford became President, his political career was well. He was elected as U.S. House of Representative in 1948. He also held office as House Minority the following 25 years he served as a congressman. He held the position of Vice president from1973-1974 for President Richard Nixon after he resigned in 1973. Gerald Ford was known as an honest, fair and…

Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy, like Eisenhower, took a more personal approach to his campaign. One of his advertisements was him having a one-on-one talk with a family to answer questions and respond to concerns of the time period. Kennedy tried to assert himself as an open and friendly family man by addressing his religion as well as using the public’s interest in his wife to gain support. Nixon, however, presented himself as an experience and mature…

when on July 16, 1973 in the ongoing investigation, it was admitted by a former associate of the president that Nixon recorded all of his conversations in his office. On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee began the impeachment process. They convicted and found him guilty on accounts of obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of congress. Shortly after this, Nixon reluctantly gave up his tapes that turned over evidence of him discussing his involvement and cover up of the…

American involvement in Vietnam increased conflict and tension in the U.S. because of the overwhelming unpopularity of the government decisions causing great social unrest and unhappiness especially young people, political corruption in the Johnson and Nixon administrations, and economic mismanagement of the war effort vs. domestic programs. As…

President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam, was trying to take over and convert them to communism. Three different presidents were in office over the entirety of the war, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the most controversial decision-making coming from Lyndon Johnson, whose presidency by 1968 saw 30 billion dollars spent on the war a year and large numbers of…

The song that I chose to do will be Fortunate Sons written by John Fogerty. This song was written in September of 1969. Richard Nixon was president of the US when group leader John Fogerty wrote this song. Fogerty was not a fan of Nixon at all and felt that people close to the president were receiving preferential treatment. In other words, they were favored more which is why Fogerty wrote this song. The meaning of the song is very clear, it pretty much tells you what it's about in the title.…

So, someone went to go and dig some dirt on a democratic public official and it was funded and run by the Republicans trying to choose Nixon. It was sent to the president of the committee, Maurice Stans, who then sent it to Howard Hunt. Stans was angry and uncooperative when Woodward and his partner tried to ask him some questions because they started to foil his plans and said he would…

He also mentioned his wife Pat and the difficulties they had to face when they first got married. Nixon appealed to the American people by giving a relatable personal experience. For example, he gave an account of him living in an $80-a-month apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, amongst his other financial expenditures and savings. He mentioned the modest or “respectable Republican coat” his wife had, and tried to continue to sell his “modest-lifestyle” and appeal and relate to the average…