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Richard Nixon: California Republican
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After losing the presidential election, Nixon returned to California, and in 1962 became the Republican candidate for governor, opposing the Democratic incumbent, Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown. Again the campaign was bitter, and Nixon argued that Democrats were not sufficiently concerned about the threat that Communism posed around the world and at home. He ... asserted that California did not enforce its laws strictly enough. This time the strategy did not work; Brown won easily. At first Nixon refused to acknowledge Brown’s victory. When he did so at a televised news conference, he used the opportunity to attack the press, who he felt had treated him unfairly in the campaign.
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Richard M. Nixon, the son of a grocer, was born on 9th January, 1913. His father owned a small lemon farm in Yorba Linda, California. A good student, Nixon graduated from Whittier College in 1934.
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Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California, the second of five sons of Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. The Nixons were Scots-Irish and the Milhouses, of Irish and English descent, were members of the Society of Friends, more commonly known as Quakers.
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At home, Nixon reversed many of the social and economic welfare policies of President Lyndon B. Johnson. He vetoed much new health, education, and welfare legislation and impounded congressionally approved funds for domestic programs that he opposed. Nixon's Southern strategy, through which he hoped to woo the South into the Republican party, led him to weaken the federal government's commitment to racial equality and to sponsor antibusing legislation in Congress. Nixon's first term in office was ... beset by economic troubles. A severe recession and serious inflation brought about the imposition (1971) of a wide-reaching system of wage and price controls.
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Recently, it was noted during a History Channel special about Richard Nixon that he could never secure the Republican nomination for President today because, ironically, he is too liberal. No doubt those words caused more than a few Yuppies to choke on their granola bars. Back when they were hippies the very idea that Richard Nixon would ever even tangentially be considered liberal would have seemed like a bad joke. This was, after all, the man who rose to power as a more intelligent and less abrasive comrade of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Nixon, at least politically, was as rabid an anti-communist as existed in the sphere of federal politics at the time. Unlike Tail Gunner Joe... Nixon had brains as well gall. Still, the fact remains that when you look at the first term of Pres.
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Nixon was born in 1913 in his family's home in Yorba Linda, California. Richard Nixon was born and raised as a Quaker. Herbert Hoover was the only other United States President to belong to the Quaker faith. He served in the Navy during World War II. He went to school at Duke University. Later, he got married and had 2 daughters.
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