Due to the family’s limited finances, Nixon forgoes the scholarship and instead attended Whittier CollegeAt Whittier College Nixon was elected student body president, became the founder and elected president of the Orthogonians fraternity, joined the debate team, acted in several plays, and was on the football team.Attended Duke University Law School on a scholarship and was a member of the law review. In Caracas, Venezuela’s capital city, the two narrowly escaped death after a violent communist mob attacks this motorcade.Nixon went head-to-head with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of freedom versus communism at the American Exhibition in Moscow in what became famously known as the “Kitchen Debate.”Nixon ran for President against Senator John F. Kennedy, participated in the first televised debates, and lost by the smallest popular-vote margin in American history.Nixon wrote his first book, “Six Crises,” he ran for governor of California against the incumbent Pat Brown and lost and his critics wrote his political obituary.During his years as a private citizen, Vice President Nixon traveled across the globe and met world leaders, and campaigned tirelessly across the country for Republican candidates in the 1964 and 1966 elections.Nixon was nominated as the Republican candidate for President and pledged to bring the nation together.Nixon was elected President of the United States, beating Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Alabama Governor George Wallace in the general election.Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States, declaring in his inaugural address,”The greatest honor that history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.”Nixon made his first foreign trip as President to Europe, visiting France, Great Britain, Belgium, and the Vatican.Nixon made the longest long distance phone call in history, as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took mankind’s first steps on the moon.Nixon announced his new foreign policy doctrine in Guam that called for the United States to act within its national interest and keep all existing treaty commitments with its allies.Nixon gave his first major address on domestic policy announcing plans for welfare reform and returning greater authority to state and local governments.Nixon received overwhelming support from the “silent majority” following a televised address announcing his plan to honorably end the Vietnam War.Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act, and launched several environmental initiatives including the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the Mammal Marine Protection Act, and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.In a nationally televised address, President Nixon announced military incursion into Cambodia, where communist sanctuaries were aiding the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.Nixon peacefully and effectively ended school segregation, leading Daniel Patrick Moynihan to say: “There has been more change in the structure of American public school education in the past month than in the past 100 years.”Nixon’s daughter Tricia married Edward Finch Cox in the Rose Garden at the White House.Nixon announced that he had been invited to China, ending a quarter of a century of hostility in Sino-American relations.A joint announcement was issued in Washington and Moscow confirming that President Nixon would visit the Soviet Union three months after returning from China.Nixon made a historic trip to China, meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai, and agreeing on a roadmap to peaceful relations through the Shanghai Communique—”It was the week that changed the world.”Nixon journeyed to the Soviet Union and signed the historic agreement on the limitation of strategic arms with Premier Leonid Brezhnev.Nixon was re-elected with largest mandate in American history, winning 49 out 50 states, and nearly 61 percent of the popular vote.Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States for the Summitt II talks.
In his eulogy, Senate Dole said that the 20th Century would be known as, “The Age of Nixon.”The Richard Nixon Foundation is a not-for-profit organization at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library dedicated to education, and illuminating the life and legacy of America’s 37th President.
Billy Graham officiated the ceremonies which tens of millions observed on television.
He also developed a skill for poker, which quickly became a great diversion while on active duty.Nixon was urged by Republican leaders in Whittier to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.Nixon was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander.Richard and Pat Nixon welcomed their first daughter, Tricia.Nixon defeated 5-term veteran Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis and was elected to represent California’s 12th district in the U.S. House of Representatives.Appointed by the Speaker of the House to a special committee, led by Representative Christian Herter of Massachusetts, Nixon was tasked with traveling throughout Europe and preparing a report on the Marshall Plan.Richard and Pat Nixon welcomed their second daughter, Julie.Nixon worked as lead committee member in the investigation of accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss, which ultimately uncovered Hiss’s role in the Communist Party and conviction on charge of perjury.Nixon was elected to the U.S. Senate seat, defeating Democratic Congresswoman and one-time Hollywood starlet Helen Gahagan Douglas.The Republican National Convention ratified by acclamation Dwight Eisenhower’s choice of Richard Nixon as his Vice Presidential running mate.Nixon gave his famous televised Checkers’ Speech, refuting false charges of fiscal impropriety, retaining his position as Vice President candidate to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and gaining nationwide support.General Eisenhower was elected President of the United States, Senator Nixon was elected as his Vice President.At the request of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon—along with Pat Nixon—made a two-month trip over 30 countries throughout Asia and the Middle East.President Eisenhower suffered from a heart attack.
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After graduation, he returned to Whittier where he took the California bar and was hired by Wingert and Bewley, the city’s oldest law firm.Met his future wife, Pat Ryan, at a Whittier Community Players tryout for the play, Dark Tower.Married Pat Ryan at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California.Began work as an attorney at the Office for Price Administration (OPA) in Washington D.C. where he witnessed first-hand the problems of government bureaucracy.
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