Richard Nixons Administation
On January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon was sworn in as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Nixon's vice-president was Spiro T. Agnew. His work as president started weeks earlier, before he even took office. Those weeks were spent choosing the people who would be in his cabinet. In 1969, one of the most urgent businesses facing him was finding a way to end the Vietnam War without allowing the government of South Vietnam to be defeated by Communists. Nixon decided to drop bombs on Cambodia. Some of the people in Congress were upset with his decision, saying that it seemed that he was making the unpopular war more widespread. Nixon answered that he was only trying to end the war swiftly. A year later he order troops to invade some areas in Cambodia where Communist troops were hiding in the jungle. This invasion started huge anti-war protests all over the United States. College students did most of the protesting destroying many college campus buildings by setting them on fire. The problem with the Communists in Vietnam had been past to Nixon by the three presidents before him, in which none of them could solve the problem. Another thing was the economy of America. Inf
When they finally acquired the tapes of the meetings between the president and Bob Haldeman, they found out that the tapes had a long gap period in them. On August 29, Washington Judge Sirica ordered Nixon to give up the tapes. Upon his return to Washington, Nixon learned that one of the men working on the Committee to re-elect Nixon was one of men arrested. He the Watergate affair or the Democrats get in his way of reelection. So that the American military would not fall behind Russian military in the missile race. In his final meeting with his Chinese host, Nixon told them his look on the future. On September 15, 1972, the first charges were made against seven people involved in the break-in. At the Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida, Nixon won the nomination from his party to run for a second term as president by a vote of 1,347 to 1. McGovern stood behind Eagleton, but Eagleton was soon forced to give up his nomination. Contrary to what he believed, it seemed unlikely for the Watergate break-in to hurt his chances for reelection, even if he had told everything he knew about the break-in. Congress approved his nomination on December 6,1973. The United States had tried to talk things through, and come up with something that both North and South Vietnam could agree on.
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