Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States of America was born on January 9th, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon grew up in a poor family and had a tough life, being surrounded by death and poverty wherever he went. After graduating second in his class in high school Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard but his family could not play the traveling and living expenses so he attended Whittier College and upon graduation he was offered a full ride scholarship to Duke where he later received his degree law.

Richard Nixon's first role in government was in Franklin Roosevelt's Office of Price Administration.After he served as a part in the OPA, Nixon joined the navy where he earned two service stars and ended up becoming a lieutenant commander. Nixon resigned from that position in January of 1946. Shortly after he was approached by a group of Quakers and asked to run for Congress. In November of 1946, Richard Nixon was elected into the House of Representatives. Nixon's severe anti-communist approach to politics caught the attention of then President Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

In 1952 Richard Nixon was awarded the position of vice president. Soon after gaining the running position under Eisenhower, Nixon was caught with a fund that was given to him by donors for personal use. Knowing that Nixon would raise Eisenhower's chance to win the campaign he allowed Nixon to give a televised speech. Though Nixon had originally thought that this speech had failed the public ate it up and Nixon and Eisenhower ended up defeating their Democratic opponents and avoiding a giant political disaster. During his term as vice president, Eisenhower was constantly sick and even had a stroke and a heart attack which gave Nixon a time to step up.

In 1960, Richard Nixon ran for presidency but was up against the Republican candidate John F. Kennedy.  In November, 1960, Richard Nixon narrowly lost the presidential election by only 120,000 votes. The Electoral College showed a wider victory for Kennedy who received 303 votes to Nixon's 219. After the loss to Kennedy, he formally announced his candidacy for president on the United Stated on February 1, 1968. With Johnson in his second term of presidency due to the assassination Kennedy in the middle of Kennedy's presidency, Johnson was becoming incumbent. Nixon’s campaign received an unexpected boost when on March 31, incumbent President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek another term. In a three-way race between Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and independent candidate George Wallace, Nixon won the election by nearly 500,000 votes. He was sworn in as the 37th President of the United States on January 20, 1969. 

Though Nixon's presidency may be viewed as a failure due to his scandal, he still did do a decent job in his presidency. Nixon was hit with an inflated economy and in order to fix it, Nixon decided to cut Spending and reduce the amount of American dollars by 8 percent. Though these fixes worked, they only worked for about two years and inflation ended up returning to become worse in 1973. Nixon Helped a lot with foreign affairs too like with the Republic of China