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Richard Nixon (1913–1994)

Autor de RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon

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Born in California in 1913, Richard Milhouse Nixon had an excellent record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning to practice law. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. After he left the service, Nixon was elected to Congress mostrar más and in 1950, won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. They won, and Nixon learned much in the Vice Presidency. In 1960 he was nominated for President, but lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace for the Presidency. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first landing on the moon. In 1972, his administration was in turmoil as the Watergate Scandal was discovered and linked to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. As a result, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973 and Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as his new Vice President. Nixon himself felt it also prudent to resign rather than face impeachment, and so on August 8, 1974, he announced that he would resign the next day. At the time of Nixon's death, he had written several books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy. Richard M. Nixon died on April 22, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Richard Nixon

RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Autor — 641 copias
La verdadera guerra (1980) 258 copias
Six Crises (1962) 223 copias
Beyond Peace (1994) 216 copias
No More Vietnams (1968) 141 copias
La Verdadera Paz (1984) 73 copias
Nixon on the Issues (1968) 2 copias
Real War (1982) 2 copias
Our Nixon 2 copias
The Nixon Yearbook, 1968 (1968) 1 copia
Plus jamais de Vietnams (1984) — Autor — 1 copia

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Nombre canónico
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Nombre legal
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Fecha de nacimiento
1913-01-09
Fecha de fallecimiento
1994-04-22
Lugar de sepultura
Yorba Linda, California, USA
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Yorba Linda, California, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Causa de fallecimiento
cerebral edema
Lugares de residencia
Yorba Linda, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
Saddle River, New Jersey, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Educación
Whittier College (BA)
Duke University Law School
Ocupaciones
Politician
Lawyer
Relaciones
Nixon, Pat (wife)
Organizaciones
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
U.S. Navy
Premios y honores
Time Magazine, Man of the Year (1971)
Time Magazine, Man of the Year (1972)
Biografía breve
Only president of the United States ever to resign from the presidency

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I have always intensely dislike Richard Nixon, both as a person and as a President. I read the book hoping to come to a more nuanced view; instead I came to feel he was even more profoundly depraved.

Still, I was one of the few in my senior year of high school class to support his pardon. I did not feel then that "piling on" was in the American tradition.
 
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JBGUSA | otra reseña | Jan 2, 2023 |
Random thoughts by Nixon about his various failures. His mistaken help to China, his unrecognized influence of the media to destroy people and propagandize opinions until it was too late. Worth reading to skim and therefore skip his other books.
 
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sacredheart25 | Jun 20, 2019 |

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