Richard Nixon's Involvement In The Vietnam War

Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He was sworn into office in January, 1969 and he resigned from office during his second term in 1974. Nixon is the only president to resign in all of American history (History.com Staff). Many people have a negative outlook on Nixon’s presidency because of the Watergate scandal. However, despite his bad reputation, Richard Nixon was one of the most transformative political figures in the 20th Century. He improved diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union, ended the draft for Vietnam, created Title IX, helped fund the war against cancer and started a distrust between the people of the United States and the president. Besides Watergate, Nixon his best known for diplomatic
Starting just after Nixon took office in 1969, the purpose of Vietnamization was to end American involvement in the Vietnam war and give South Vietnam all of the military responsibility. There were many calls to withdraw all American troops immediately, however, they were dismissed because Nixon wanted to find “peace with honor” with Vietnam. Nixon said, “The defense of freedom is everybody’s business, not just America’s business. And it is particularly the responsibility of the people whose freedom is threatened. In the previous administration, we Americanized the war in Vietnam. In this administration, we are Vietnamizing the search for peace,” (History.com Staff). By January 1973, had made a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese. The settlement required that all U.S. troops were removed in the next 60 days, an immediate cease fire, the return of all American prisoners. Additionally, the North Vietnamese leaders had to recognise the South Vietnamese government and all conflicts had to be reported to an international commission (History.com Staff). However, this was not the end of the Vietnam war in Vietnam. In 1975, North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam and the country was under communist leadership again. (History.com
Title IX states, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” (Parnass). Although this may not have been its original purpose, title IX has made a huge difference in women’s sports. Since its enactment, participation in women's’ high school sports has increased tenfold and participation at a college level has increased twelvefold. Additionally, the number of high school girls playing sports has gone from about 310,000 girls to 3,373,000 girls (Barra). Title IX has also helped in our athletic performance at the Olympics. Before title IX was enacted, women won 19 medals, and 13 were silver and gold. Most recently in Beijing, women won 40 medals, 26 of which were gold and silver (Barra). In short, Nixon gave many women the chance to become athletes, when it had not been possible for them