Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994 was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. call as Richard M. Nixon for most of his career, he was a constituent of the Republican Party who previously served as a representative as well as senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961. His five years in the White business saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the first manned Moon landings, and the creation of the Environmental security system Agency. Nixon'sterm ended early, when he became the only president to resign from office, following the Watergate scandal.
Nixon was born into a poor types of 1946. His take on the Alger Hiss Case instituting his reputation as a leading anti-Communist, which elevated him to national prominence, and in 1950, he was elected to the Senate. Nixon was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 election, and served for eight years as the vice president. He ran for president in 1960, narrowly lost to John F. Kennedy, then failed again in a 1962 category for governor of California, after which time it was widely believed that his political career was over. However, in 1968, he introduced another run for the presidency and was elected, narrowly defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in acontest.
Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973, and with it, the military draft, that same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he also then concluded the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. In step with his conservative beliefs, his administration incrementally transferred energy to direct or determine from the federal government to the states. Nixon's home policy saw him impose wage and price dominance for 90 days, enforce desegregation of Southern schools, establish the Environmental Protection Agency, and begin the War on Cancer. Additionally, his administration pushed for the Controlled Substances Act and began the War on Drugs. He also presided over the Apollo 11 Moon landing, which signaled the end of the Space Race. He was re-elected with a historic electoral landslide in 1972 when he defeated George McGovern.
In histerm, Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli losses in the Yom Kippur War, a war which led to the oil crisis at home. By gradual 1973, the Nixon administration's involvement in Watergate eroded his support in Congress and the country. On August 9, 1974, facing nearly certain impeachment and removal from office, Nixon resigned the presidency. Afterwards, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. In his almost 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote his memoirs and nine other books and undertook many foreign trips, rehabilitating his conviction into that of an elder statesman and leading a person engaged or qualified in a profession. on foreign affairs. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at age 81. Surveys of historians and political scientists clear ranked Nixon as a below-average president. However, evaluations of him have proven complex, as the successes of his presidency have been contrasted with the circumstances of his departure from office.