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Richard Nixon: President Richard Nixon
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Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California, a small community located 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. His parents, Francis and Hanna Nixon, had five sons, of which Richard was the second. Nixon's mother had been raised as a Quaker and his father abandoned his Methodist faith after their marriage and became a Quaker as well. Nixon was educated in public schools in Yorba Linda and Whittier, where the family moved when he was nine. After high school, Nixon enrolled at Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he was a successful student politician, becoming president of the student body. After Whittier, Nixon attended Duke University Law School, where he graduated third of the 44 members of the class of 1937.
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Over the next eight years, Richard Nixon elevated the office of vice president to a position of importance never before seen. No previous vice president was ever as active within the administration or enjoyed as much responsibility, partly because of Nixon's own energetic habits. He was always looking for something to do and took a keen interest in almost every aspect of government. Circumstances ... played a part because of Eisenhower's occasional health problems. Believing that Franklin Roosevelt's failure to keep Vice President Harry S. Truman informed of government initiatives like the Manhattan Project had been dangerous, Eisenhower was determined that his own vice president would be as well informed as anyone in the administration. But the primary reason for Nixon's activist status was that Eisenhower provided him with unique opportunities.
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Richard Nixon seemed well prepared to deal with the difficulties of being president. He was known for his ability to fight, to lose, and to keep trying. Nixon was born in California. His family was poor. When he was about ten years old, he harvested vegetables to help earn money for his family. He earned the money he needed to go to college.
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Richard Nixon was, in many ways, the ideal running mate for Dwight Eisenhower. The general indicated that he wanted someone "who was young, vigorous, ready to learn, and of good reputation." Only on the last of these criteria was Nixon suspect, and the most outspoken critics of Nixon's tactics were liberal Democrats who probably would not have voted for the Republican ticket in any event. Aside from providing a youthful counter to the sixty-two-year-old Eisenhower, Nixon balanced the ticket geographically, since Eisenhower's campaign relied heavily on New Yorkers. His nomination ... indicated that California was becoming increasingly vital in presidential politics. Perhaps most important, Nixon was one of only a very few Republicans of national stature acceptable to both the Eisenhower camp and the Old Guard.
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Richard Nixon became president in January 1969, when the era of American strategic superiority was waning and rising domestic discontent with the pace of reform and the U.S. involvement in Vietnam was fueling a political backlash. Nixon, working closely with his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, appreciated that the United States did not have unlimited resources or unlimited interests, and sought to redefine America's role in the world through a retrenchment of its global commitments. Nixon's accomplishments and reputation as a strategist are overshadowed by his resignation in 1974 over the Watergate scandal.
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In the late 80s or early 90s, the corpse of Richard Nixon clawed itself out of its grave and attacked former president Gerald Ford who was visiting the grave after recovering from an attack by rabid wolverines. Although early news reports stated Ford has been killed this was not the case. The corpse of Richard Nixon scurried back into its grave and hasn't been seen since.
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