Their were various points throughout the Nixon and Carter administrations where US both continued the Cold War diplomacy and clashed with communist nations. Their were also times were the US broke social boundaries and departed from the Cold War norms by attempting to restore a good relationship with the Soviet Union. During the Nixon administration the Cold War diplomacy continued through the Vietnam war. During the earlier years as president he continued to fight the Vietnam war‚ which was a fight
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August in 1972‚ President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon’s word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later‚ the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced from office. Watergate was connected to Vietnam‚ it eventually exposed a long series of illegal activities in the Nixon administration. Nixon and his staff were found
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I chose to research the life of President Richard Nixon. Nixon was actually the first cousin to my great-grandmother and this gave me inspiration to learn more about his life. To my family he is just another family member‚ however‚ to the rest of the world he was a great politician who turned into a “crook” politician. Nixon was most well known for his political career by being elected as the 37th President of The United States. He had a very successful life and in order for others to understand
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the Watergate Scandal. President Nixon did many things well during his Presidency‚ but one mistake changed his whole career and the way people thought of him. If someone makes a mistake in life the best thing you can do is admit what they did. Nixon covered up the evidence and had to pay for it. When a person commits a wrong doing‚ sooner or later they will get caught. If a person gets trapped in a bad situation‚ there should always be a way to get out of it. Nixon was not organized and had no control
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stating recently about the scandal. Not long after suspicions of possible affiliation of president Nixon‚ some of the conspirators began to talk under the pressure being placed on them as to what actually happened in the Watergate building back in 1972. John Dean‚ the White House counsel had testified against Nixon in front of a grand jury about the president’s crimes. It was also testified that Nixon had recorded every conversation that had ever taken place in the Oval Office. The president’s guilt
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In 1974‚ former President Richard Nixon‚ was sent to court because he had been accused for the cover up the Watergate incident. By the year 1972‚ Richard Nixon was up for reelection as President. At the time‚ our country was still greatly affected by the actions and outcome of the Vietnam War. This cause our nation to be angry and deeply divided. Nixon was highly motivated to take aggressive action to ensure his success in becoming President. On June 17‚ 1972 a group of men from Nixon’s party were
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election‚ Nixon opposed court-ordered busing and took a stand against criminals‚ drug users‚ and radicals. In order to continue his plans‚ Nixon authorized illegal investigations against thousands of citizens and used the government to its full capacity to help him win the election. Nixon initiated the Huston plan that infiltrated into the privacy of American lives and got to the point of breaking and entering to gather or plant evidence. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover opposed the plan‚ but Nixon secretly
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In the recorded conversations that Richard Nixon‚ the 37th President of the United States‚ had with his White House aides‚ he reveals his motivations and his assumptions about the American public: “Everybody says we’ve got to protect this one and that one and the other one. The main thing we’ve got to protect is the Presidency”. He felt that the presidency granted him immunity to the law. Under his Presidency‚ an air of distrust of government gradually grew amongst US citizens. He led a criminal
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The Watergate Scandal was one of the largest scandals of American history. Richard Nixon was a father‚ a President‚ a friend‚ a Congressman and was the cause of the Watergate Scandal. But he betrayed his country by trying to cover up the fact that he was a part of the scandal. Nixon tried to hide the fact he didn’t know about the scandal by giving money to the people who broke into the Watergate and tried to stop the investigators that were looking into the crime and even tried to get the Federal
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Richard Nixon ’s presidency is one of the most examined‚ analyzed and discussed‚ yet least understood‚ of all the American administrations in history (Genovese 1). While many factors still remain to be discovered‚ and many mysteries are left to be resolved‚ we need to do the best that we can to make sense of this secretive president of our past and his era. He is the one American figure about whom very few people don ’t have strong feelings for. Nixon is loved and hated‚ honored and mocked
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