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Richard Nixon (1913–1994)

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Born in California in 1913, Richard Milhouse Nixon had an excellent record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning to practice law. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. After he left the service, Nixon was elected to Congress mehr anzeigen and in 1950, won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. They won, and Nixon learned much in the Vice Presidency. In 1960 he was nominated for President, but lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace for the Presidency. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first landing on the moon. In 1972, his administration was in turmoil as the Watergate Scandal was discovered and linked to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. As a result, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973 and Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as his new Vice President. Nixon himself felt it also prudent to resign rather than face impeachment, and so on August 8, 1974, he announced that he would resign the next day. At the time of Nixon's death, he had written several books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy. Richard M. Nixon died on April 22, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Richard Nixon

Memoiren (1978) — Autor — 641 Exemplare
Six Crises (1962) 223 Exemplare
Beyond Peace (1994) 216 Exemplare
1999: Victory Without War (1988) 160 Exemplare
No More Vietnams (1968) 141 Exemplare
The Presidential transcripts (1974) 52 Exemplare
Nixon on the Issues (1968) 2 Exemplare
Real War (1982) 2 Exemplare
Our Nixon 2 Exemplare
The Nixon Yearbook, 1968 (1968) 1 Exemplar
Plus jamais de Vietnams (1984) — Autor — 1 Exemplar
State of the Union Address (1970) 1 Exemplar
Líderes (Spanish Edition) (2015) 1 Exemplar
The Nixon Answer 1 Exemplar

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Our Country's Presidents (2001) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben747 Exemplare
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Mitwirkender — 112 Exemplare
Where He Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro T. Agnew (1968) — Einführung — 6 Exemplare
Yesterday. mini-autobiography with cameras (2016) — Photographer of Duncan — 5 Exemplare

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I have always intensely dislike Richard Nixon, both as a person and as a President. I read the book hoping to come to a more nuanced view; instead I came to feel he was even more profoundly depraved.

Still, I was one of the few in my senior year of high school class to support his pardon. I did not feel then that "piling on" was in the American tradition.
 
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JBGUSA | 1 weitere Rezension | Jan 2, 2023 |
Random thoughts by Nixon about his various failures. His mistaken help to China, his unrecognized influence of the media to destroy people and propagandize opinions until it was too late. Worth reading to skim and therefore skip his other books.
 
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sacredheart25 | Jun 20, 2019 |

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