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Richard Nixon: Party Congress
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Nixon wrote Six Crises (1962), a book dealing with his political involvement as a congressman, senator and as Vice-President. The book used six different crises Nixon had experienced throughout his political career to illustrate his political memoirs. It was not supposed to be an academic work on the subject of crises, rather a method of depicting his political biography in a personal manner. The work won praise from many policy experts and critics. Ironically, as Margaret MacMillan would discuss in her book Nixon in China (2006), Six Crises found a favorable critic in Mao Zedong, who referred to the book when in preparation for Nixon's visit in 1972.
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Nixon revolutionized American foreign policy by seeking disengagement and by placing greater emphasis on allies being responsible for their own protection. He conveyed that he had a sure feel for foreign affairs and by the time of the 1972 presidential election had an impressive record on which to run. In domestic affairs, the record was less impressive. He pursued a policy of "New Federalism", manifested in the policy of revenue sharing, under which more federal funds than before were allocated to the states and municipalities. However, the main feature of his domestic politics was his clashes with a Democrat-controlled Congress. Nixon impounded funds voted by Congress.
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One of President Nixon's most important proposals was to build a system to defend against enemy missiles. He said the system was needed to protect American missile bases. The issue caused much debate. Critics said it would add to the arms race with the Soviet Union. Congress approved the plan in August nineteen-sixty-nine.
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Nixon did have wide support in Congress and with other politicians whom he had helped in their campaigns. In addition, he seemed to occupy a middle position in policies and ideas between the conservative wing of the party, then led by Governor Ronald W. Reagan of California, and the Northeastern liberal wing, which preferred Governor Rockefeller. Polls indicated clearly that Nixon was the favorite of regular party members.
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A few months later, Nixon joined the New York law firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, which later became Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell. However, in 1964, after the Republican defeat by President Lyndon Johnson, it became clear that Nixon again considered himself a serious presidential contender. In 1968, winning his party's presidential nomination, he picked Governor Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland as his running mate.
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During the Watergate hearings, Nixon tried to obstruct the investigation into his obstruction of justice by offering up the heads of his Attorney General and other officials. Then, Congress refused to swallow the Nixon bait. The only resignation that counted was the one by the capo di capi of the criminal-political cabal: Nixon’s. The President’s.
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