Richard+Nixon

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=Richard Nixon=

=__Biographical Information:__=

Buried:Yorba Linda, CA
==__Biographical Sketch:__ Richard Nixon was voted into the presidency twice. Even after resigning from office, he still got voted back in. Before he was president of the United States, Nixon was also a senator, congressman, and vice president of the U.S. Nixon was also a husband and father. He was married to Thelma Nixon and had two children Julie and Patricia. Nixon in my opinion is one of the most memorible presidents.Nixon attended school and Duke and Whitter College.He was born into a Quaker family in middle class.==

=__Political Experience__=
 * 1950-Senate
 * 1952-Vice President
 * 1946-Congressman
 * 1969-1974-elected 37th president of the U.S.

=__Presidential Administration__=

Secretary of the Navy:? N/A
=__Domestic Affairs__= One major domestic event that occured while Nixon was in office was a long period of unemployment and inflation. Nixon had many methods to solve both problems, not all of them were successful. To decrease unemployment, Nixon had to stop pay raises by every 6 months. That was unsuccessful because some workers went on strike. To stop inflation Nixon closed what was calle "The Gold Window". That prevented the trade of gold for american money. Those are some of the major ways that Nixon tried to stop domestic affairs.

=__Foreign Affairs__= Nixon had visited many foregin countries in order for them to hear what he wanted to become accomplished. He wanted to stop the tension between China, Soviet Union, and Vietnam. Nixon wanted to pressure North Vietnam to end the war. Nixon also tried to control nuclear arms from growing. He signed 2 treaties that didn't stop the growth, but helped to reduce and elimanate arms. The treaties were Stragetic Arms Limitations and Anti-Ballistic Missile. Unfourtnely, none of these attempts stopped the war completly. Not until 1973 however was the Paris Peace Accords signed to elimnate the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

=__Famous Quotes__= "Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarainism. And so tonight-to you the grest silent majority of my fellow Americans-ask for your support." November 3, 1969

=__Interesting Facts__= Richard Nixon was the first president to resign from office. Also he helped elimanate the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War

=__Presidential Timeline__= Include a chronological timeline of the most important historical and political events that occured during your president's administration.
 * (1946) elected U.S. House of Reprensatives
 * (1952)elected Vice President, while Dwight Eisenhower was the president
 * (1969)elected president of the U.S.
 * (1973)Helped elimanate the U.S. in the Vietnam War

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