The Reign of Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9th, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He was born into a large and predominantly poor family who lived on the edge of poverty. Dick had four brothers in which he loved very much. Tragedy struck at an early age for Dick when younger brother Arthur died of unpublished causes (Lindop, 10). From then on Nixon prided on making a success out of himself, to try to make up for the loss of his brother. Frank Nixon, the father of Dick, dropped out of school in sixth grade because he was poverty stricken and he needed to support himself (Lindop, 11). Dick knew that to make a success out of himself, it would take a lot of hard work, so he took his fathers advice on going to school. In his junior year at high school, Dick decided that he wanted to study law and become a politician. After high school he went on to attend Whittier College, which was nearby his high school. Dick earned outstanding grades in college earning the number two ra!nking in his class (Lindop, 12). After Whittier, he went on to attend Duke University Law School where he received scholarships that paid his full tuition. He graduated Duke in 1937 earning the third ranking of his class of twenty-five
During the last part of Nixon's second term is when he made plans to run for president in 1960. Nixon also passed bills to help people that were in need of welfare. Nixon also appealed himself to what people called the "silent majority" which were the people that were sick and tired of all the protesting and just wanted to restore social stability (Library of Congress, 60). He won this election in 1950 easily despite that fact that many people did not approve of the way that Nixon campaigned (Robinson, 2000). Nixon moved on to win the presidential election over opponent Hubert Humphrey who was a Democratic. In response to all of this, the House of Representatives drew up the charges to have President Nixon impeached and removed from office. It all started as Nixon as many Critics of the war were criticizing him for his slow actions in getting out of the war. Vice President and Presidency At age thirty-seven, Nixon became the youngest member of the Senate. Again, the Vietnam War played a big role in our country.
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