Richard Nixon

he covered up a crime

Richard Nixon was the first American President to visit the People's Republic of China since it was established in 1949. Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai agreed to exchange cultural contacts between the two nations. Nixon helped establish the Open Door Policy, which ensured that all nations had equal trading privileges with China.

The administration of Richard Nixon was obsessive to the point of paranoia regarding "leaks" of information the the press & other media. The men given the job of plugging those leaks were given the nickname of "plumbers". (Plumbers are also reputed to 'get rid of the sh*t)

Archibald Cox

Richard M. Nixon was elected US President in 1968.

That was LBJs program; Nixon concentrated on Vietnam.

Nixon liked football, he played to win. Johnson wanted to create a "Great Society" of peace, education and equal rights. Johnson "Hated" the Vietnam War. He refused to remain president anymore because of it. Nixon was ready to play "hard-ball", and he did.

38 members of the Nixon Administration plead guilty to or been indicted for crimes revealed in the Watergate investigation.

Resign from office.

Some troops were withdrawn under Nixon, but the final evacuation was ordered during Ford's presidency (April, 1975).

Presiedent Nixon was succeeded by Gerald Ford, who had been the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Normally, a President is succeeded by the Vice President, however in this case, Vice President Agnew had also resigned, so the succession went to the next in line, the Speaker of the House.

If a madman's idea fails-he's a madman. If a madman's idea succeeds-he's a hero. Nixon was a successful commander in chief. Nixon had the guts to bomb Hanoi "back into the stone age"...with B52 Stratofortress bombers (to quote USAF GEN Curtis LeMay concerning his discussion about North Vietnam in about 1965).

They were two reporters that worked for the Washington Post who broke and followed up the story of the Watergate break in. They had a contact they met named "deep throat" that gave them information that led to the tapes of Nixon giving orders for the break in and eventually will mean he will resign his office.

Nixon was more of a visionary, seeing China's potential, not to help communism, but to further his own country's power, but also separate even more the already tense Sino-Soviet Relations, Reagan, was a hardline anti-communist, and saw to put immense pressure on the gorbachev administration, with the reformist gorbachev and his "Perestroika" and "Glastnost" ideals, saw the Soviet Union incapable to survive the multiple revolutions, and the reforms which led to Reagan's famous words "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Reagan at the fall of the berlin war ceremony, Reagan saw communism as a threat to be erased but Nixon saw it as a way to further his own country's aims at dealing a decisive blow at the soviet sphere of influence, but also seize the potential hidden in the massive chinese labour force, you could saw Nixon is the reason you see made in china in 99% of the products in the United States.

There was no U.S. Presidential election in 1961. Then-Vice-President Richard M. Nixon just barely lost to then-Senator John F. Kennedy in 1960.

The 1960 U.S. Presidential Election was the first of only two times that the loser carried more states than the winner (the 2nd was in 1976, when Gov. Carter won despite Pres. Ford's carrying more states).

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After being forced to resign as VP, his party did not consider him to be a viable candidate for president. Spiro Agnew was never elected to the presidency. When Nixon resigned as President, Agnew was no longer the Vice President.

renewed anti-war demonstrations on college campuses.

The watergate tapes are the series of tapes that was used as the main evidence to impeach Nixon. The tapes were recordings of every conversation Nixon had in his office about the Watergate scandal, they contained evidence that Nixon was trying to cover up his involvement in the scandal.

Nixon's original chief of staff was H.R. Haldeman. He was dismissed during the Watergate scandal, and replaced by Alexander Haig.

Gerald Ford. He replaced Spiro Agnew in December 1974 after Agnew resigned following investigations on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy.

The U.S. was assisted by Canada, Australia, Korea and the Philippines. North Vietnam was helped by the U.S.S.R. and China.

Nixon's time in office is viewed as a crucial importance towards the development of the United States military, diplomatic, and political. He was known for being liberal, moderate, or conservative. He will always be remembered for his achievements in the controlling of nuclear weapons with the Soviet Union. Despite the Watergate Scandal, Nixon's term was significant towards American History.

Although various theories and conflicting testimony was given over the years about the motives for the 2 burglaries, no one was ever proved the actual motive. Possibilities: just to eavesdrop on the DNC chair, to obtain financial records, to try to show Cuba was involved with the DNC, to obtain info they had re Libby.

3 years, from 1972 ( US troops left VN ) to 1975 ( government of SVN fail to NVN )

The Paris Peace Accords were signed January 27, 1973, by the U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Under the terms, the U.S. agreed to withdraw all remaining military personnel within 60 days.

Saigon (capital of South Vietnam) fell to communist forces on April 30, 1975.