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Richard Nixon: Party Congress
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In May 1952, at a New York state Republican $100-a-plate dinner, Nixon's extemporaneous partisan speech won the admiration of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, twice-defeated party candidate for the presidency and one of the leaders of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign. Dewey broached to Nixon the possibility of Nixon's being Eisenhower's vice presidential candidate. Two months later, Eisenhower won the presidential nomination; Dewey and his allies proposed Nixon to their candidate, who readily agreed.
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Eisenhower mostly stayed out of the campaign until the last weeks, when he made several speeches on Nixon's behalf. His reluctance was due as much to Nixon's determination to run his own campaign as to Ike's ill health or indifference. The race itself was one of the closest in American history. It featured two bright young candidates who evinced an unbounded optimism about the nation's future squaring off in the historic television debates that captured the attention of the nation. In the end, Kennedy won by the narrowest of margins, but Nixon had run a highly competent campaign in spite of the handicaps of representing a minority party, being tied to an unpopular administration, and facing a charismatic opponent. He ... was attempting to become the first sitting vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren.
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In 1968 Cheney moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as a congressional fellow, and beginning in 1969 he worked in the administration of President Richard Nixon. After leaving government service briefly in 1973, he became a deputy assistant to President Gerald Ford in 1974 and his chief of staff from 1975 to 1977.
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The Congressional hearings revealed Nixon had tape recorded conversations and telephone calls in his office. These recordings reveal that Nixon's role in the cover-up began as early as six days after the break-in. The tapes ... reveal an immense scope of crimes and abuses that predate the Watergate break-in. These include campaign fraud, political espionage and sabotage, illegal break-ins, improper tax audits, illegal wiretapping on a massive scale, and a secret slush fund laundered in Mexico to pay those who conducted these operations. The president, citing Executive Privilege, refused to turn the tapes over to the committee. In Oct. 1973 Nixon ordered Elliot Richardson, the attorney general, to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor who had subpoenaed the tapes, but Richardson resigned in protest.
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Nixon is credited with creating the modern day Imperial Presidency, in which the presidency retains a high level of control over government policy and decisions. In the early 1970s, Nixon impounded billions of dollars in federal spending and expanded the power of the Office of Management and Budget. These encroachments on the power of Congress led to the passage of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
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Nixon and Agnew ran against the Democratic team of Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie. Third party candidate George Wallace of Alabama, a threat to both tickets, hurt Humphrey more. In the end, though the Republicans had the presidential victory, the Democrats retained control of Congress.
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