Richard Nixon

The My Lai Massacre took place on March 16, 1968, in a small village located in the Quang Ngai province named My Lai. The U.S. soldiers thought of My Lai as a stronghold of their Viet Cong enemies, and was a frequent target of U.S. and South Vietnamese bombing attacks. An American contingent of 100 soldiers, “Charlie Company”, led by Lieutenant William L. Calley, had received poor intelligence and were told that they would encounter many Viet Cong. After the murder of 504 innocent civilians, the…

Thirty-third United States President Harry S. Truman entered office on January 20, 1945, when the climate of expectation was high. Since they were engulfed in the chaos of the Second World War and depressed by the passing of their President, the people required a powerful leader. The nation looked to the new president for reassurance, a feeling that everything would be alright. They needed a strong leader to provide a sense of progress and action when directing the country; it had to be…

Why did Kennedy win the Election? Why did Nixon lose the election? The year 1960 has been full of uncertainties. Domestically, behind the economic prosperity there came the explosively populous new generation who must be financially equipped; Civil rights movement was heating up under the leadership of Martin Luther King. In the international arena, the predominant image of the country was shaken by recent unpleasant diplomacy –especially the failed summit with Krushchev. However, in 1960, one…

Joaquim Alberto Chissano was the president of Mozambique from 1985 to 2005, he was born on 22th October 1939. He was the 2nd individual to hold the office of president after Mozambique had gained independence from Portugal on 25th June 1975. (Hanlon, 2009) His tenure as president has when viewed as largely successful based on he approaches to handling the various crises he was confronted with. Most notably his handling of the civil war and aftermath within Mozambique, which he managed to bring…

Kissinger, did not miss an opportunity to engage in discussions with China. He was sent in secrecy for negotiations that would lead Nixon to lead the first official visit of an American president in PR China on 21 February 1972. The negotiations, hidden behind an aggressive public rhetoric toward the communist threat, were conducted while already, without realizing it to Nixon, Kissinger had already established contacts end of 1969. Kissinger, shows his admiration for China's diplomatic…

Also, to force some students to take part in an action they do not voluntarily subscribe to is completely wrong. As antiwar activists, what we ought to do is to show those who are reluctant to join the movement the need to join hands against the Nixon policies. In this regard, those who want to attend classes should be given room do so without any interference since getting an education is equally important. I also feel that calls to have a complete “hard” strike or nothing at all by the…

The Daredevil Reporter “Very well,...start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper.”(Around The World In 72 Days, 1) That is what reporter Nellie Bly said when she was informed she had to have a male chaperone to travel. At one time, she was the best-known journalist in the world. Unfortunately, history has forgotten this star reporter. Bly changes the world with her bold reporting style, and introduced ideas of a woman being in the news. She also fought against “yellow…

On February 3, 1968, William J. Jorden, a staff member of the National Security Council, called the enemy’s offensive America’s “worst intelligence failure of the war.” U.S. intelligence analysts failed to understand their adversary because they focused on only two aspects of their opponent’s strategy: the Vietnamese application of people’s war, which relied heavily on the ideas articulated by Lin Piao and Mao Tse-tung; and the military aspects-especially military operations involving…

What makes a good president ? A good president is a person who cares about his citizens, is a good leader, and introduces new programs to help his citizens and the person who exhibited all of this was John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, At noon on November 22,1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. He was just riding on a motorcade through Dealey Plaza and then he died for something that happened. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was unjust because he was a good leader for the United…

The Vietnam war was a 19-year long battle that took place in North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. To Harry G. Summer, the conflict had the 18th century stylistic fighting and war strategy so many causalities of Men, Women and Children. And to Michael Hennessy the vietnam war was a strategic war that started peaceful and ended as not so peaceful. I find myself wondering what the advantage of the Vietnam war was to america. Our two Historians , as well as others, will help us find the…