Richard Nixon

Examples of Richard Nixon in the following topics:

• The Election of 1960

  • Kennedy beat Vice President Richard Nixon by a very narrow margin.
  • The Republican Party nominated Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's Vice-President, while the Democrats nominated John F.
  • Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon, was the obvious choice for the Republican nomination.
  • In August of 1960, most polls gave Nixon a lead over Kennedy.
  • On the other hand, Nixon's running mate ran a lethargic campaign and made additional mistakes which hurt Nixon.

• Nixon in China

  • Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in easing relations between both nations.
  • Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an important step in easing relations between the two countries.
  • On Nixon's orders, television was strongly favored over printed publications, as Nixon felt that the medium would capture the visit much better than print.
  • The repercussions of Nixon's visit to China were vast.
  • Nixon and Brezhnev proclaimed a new era of "peaceful coexistence".

• The Ford Inauguration

  • Gerald Ford became president of the United States after Richard Nixon resigned, serving from 1974 to 1977.
  • When President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 over the controversy of the Watergate scandal, Vice President Gerald Ford assumed the presidency; this made him the only person to assume the presidency without having been previously voted into either the presidential or vice presidential office.
  • The Nixon pardon was highly controversial.
  • Kennedy Profile in Courage Award to Ford for his pardon of Nixon.
  • Gerald and Betty Ford with the President and First Lady Pat Nixon after President Nixon nominated Ford to be Vice President, October 13, 1973.

• The Nixon Administration

  • Republican Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968 and easily won reelection in 1972; however he left office amidst a scandal in 1974.
  • Richard Milhous Nixon was elected president in the election of 1968, narrowly beating the incumbent vice president, Hubert Humphrey.
  • Nixon became only the second Republican President elected since 1932.
  • Nixon achieved some successes in the realm of foreign policy.
  • During this era, Nixon contended with budget deficits and high inflation.

• The Nixon Shock

  • The "Nixon Shock" ended the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, otherwise known as the gold standard.
  • In 1971, President Richard Nixon made sweeping changes to the United States' financial policy, ending the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold.
  • Because Nixon made the decision without consulting any interested foreign parties, the international community deemed the new American policies the "Nixon Shock. "
  • Most importantly, Nixon "closed the gold window," ending convertibility between US dollars and gold on August 15, 1971.
  • President Nixon instituted a set of economic policies that created the "Nixon shock," contributing to an American recession in the 1970s.

• The Election of 1972

  • In the presidential election of 1972, Richard Nixon beat the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, by a significant margin.
  • Nixon won 60.7% of the popular vote, only slightly lower than Lyndon B.
  • Nixon’s strategy was to appeal to working- and middle-class suburbanites.
  • On the 1968 campaign trail, Richard Nixon flashes his famous “V for Victory” gesture (a).
  • Nixon’s strategy was to appeal to working- and middle-class suburbanites.

• The Election of 1968

  • Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the tumultuous 1968 Presidential election.
  • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the other three: The first faction consisted of labor unions and big-city Democratic bosses, led by Mayor Richard J.
  • The Nixon campaign promised to restore "law and order", which appealed widely.
  • It was not until the following morning that the television news networks called Nixon the winner.
  • Nixon's victory is often considered a realigning election in American politics.

• The Election of 1952

  • Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator Richard Nixon of California as Eisenhower's running mate.
  • A notable event of the 1952 campaign concerned a scandal that emerged when Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's running mate, was accused by several newspapers of receiving undeclared "gifts" from wealthy donors.
  • However, Nixon saved his political career with a half-hour speech on live television.
  • In the speech, Nixon denied the charges against him, gave a detailed account of his modest financial assets, and offered a glowing assessment of Eisenhower's candidacy.
  • Red denotes states won by Eisenhower/Nixon, Blue denotes those won by Stevenson/Sparkman.

• Nixon and the Economy

  • Nixon thus perceived a threat to his reelection chances in the state of the economy.
  • The primary goal of Nixon's economic policy was the reduction of inflation rates.
  • The Democratic majorities, knowing Nixon had opposed such controls through his career, did not expect Nixon to actually use this authority.
  • Because Nixon made the decision without consulting any interested foreign parties, the international community deemed the new American policies the "Nixon Shock."
  • Richard Nixon at Opening Day of the Washington Senator's Baseball Season, 1969

• Vietnam Becomes Nixon's War

  • Richard Nixon campaigned for the 1968 presidential election behind the promise that he would end the war in Vietnam and bring "peace with honor."
  • This policy became the cornerstone of the Nixon Doctrine.
  • Adjusting to Nixon's policy of Vietnamization, General Creighton W.
  • The following year, Nixon launched military incursions into Cambodian territory.
  • Analyze Nixon's strategies for ending American involvement in the Vietnam War