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Richard Nixon: New York
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Nixon withdrew from the public eye after leaving office, owing to stress and poor health, perhaps the result of guilt stress and heavy drinking. In time he returned to the "arena" in an effort to restore his public image, writing numerous books and offering foreign policy advice to Presidents and other world leaders. The increasingly conservative news media cooperated with this image make-over.
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Two years after his unsuccessful bid for the presidency, Nixon re-entered the political fray and sought election as Governor of California. He lost, telling reporters that "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." He practised law again, this time in New York, and his law practice — along with royalties from the sale of his book Six Crises (1961) — provided him with an income he had not enjoyed before. He undertook trips to the Middle East, South America, and Europe — in France he was entertained by President Charles de Gaulle — and began to plan a resumption of his political career. He campaigned for the Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964 and in 1968 he sought the Republican nomination for President. He edged out his opponents and won the nomination at the Republican convention in Miami.
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Following his defeat, Nixon returned to California and practiced law in Los Angeles. He won the Republican nomination for governor of California in 1962, but after losing the election by a wide margin, he told reporters that he was leaving the political arena. He moved to New York, where he became a partner in a prominent law firm. But he ... kept a close eye on the course of Republican politics.
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In seeking the nomination in 1968, Nixon had certain handicaps to overcome. For one thing, he had not won an election on his own since 1950. Moreover, he had no state in which to base his candidacy: His former state, California, had rejected him in 1962, and his current state, New York, was the home ground of another possible candidate, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. In addition, Nixon could count on few Republican governors for support, and they would lead the delegations from their states at the Republican National Convention.
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A reasonable interpretation of the tape is that it shows Nixon bestowing his blessing on the coverup three days prior to the "smoking gun" conversation with H.R. Haldeman, in which he seeks to have the CIA block the FBI probe. But it most emphatically does not do what Morgan has Frost claim in the fictional play: "You have always maintained that you first learned of the break-in on June the 23rd. This tape clearly shows that to be a falsehood." In fact, Nixon always acknowledged learning of the break-in within hours of its June 17 occurrence while returning with Haldeman from a visit to Key Biscayne. That claim was undisturbed by the new evidence and remains unchallenged to this day.
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After his defeat, Nixon moved to New York City, where he joined a large law firm. He remained in close touch with national Republican leaders and campaigned for Republican candidates in the 1964 and 1966 elections. By February 1, 1968, he had sufficiently recovered his political standing to announce his candidacy for president.
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