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Date sent: Sat, 27 Apr 96 12:24:49 -0700
Richard M. Nixon
The 37th President.
By:
Richard Nixon was the first president to the United States to resign from office. Richard
resigned in 1974 to avoid being impeached.
In 1968, in a political comeback unprecedented in American history, Richard was elected as
the 37th president of the United states. This victory followed two major defeats for
Richard. In his first bid for the presidency in 1960, he was beaten by John F. Kennedy the
Democratic Candidate. Two years later he suffered a crushing loss in his campaign for the
governorship of his home state of California. After those 2 devastating losses he retired
to practice law. Before the election of 1960 NixonÆs political career was a series of
unbroken success. He was elected to the United States Congressman 1946, entered the Senate
as the youngest member in history, and two years later he became the nationÆs second
youngest vice-president at the age of 39. As vice-president he served 2 terms under Dwight
D. Eisenhower. Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yourba Linda, a farming village in Orange
County, California. He was the second of five sons of Francis (Frank) Nixon and Hanna
Milhous Nixon. Frank came from a Scotch-Irish farming family. He was a descendant of
James Nixon, who emigrated from Ireland to settle in Delaware in 1753. RichardÆs father
was born near McArthur, Ohio, had to go to work after only six years of school. His last
job in Ohio was as a streetcar motorman. One winter day his feet were frostbitten in the
car, and he decided to move to a warmer climate. In Whittier, California. There he took a
job running a trolley. Whittier a Quaker settlement wan named fro the Quaker poet John
Greenlear Whittier and founded in 1887. Here Frank and Hannah met. Hannah was one of nine
children of Franklin Milhous whose ancestors had emigrated from Germany to England and then
to Ireland. Later they moved to Pennsylvania to practice the Quaker religion freely. When
Hannah was born, her parents lived near Butlerville, Indiana. In 1897 they moved to
California. Frank met Hannah at a Quaker meetinghouse party in February of 1908. They
were married four months later. Frank then changed his religion from Methodist, to Quaker.
The year before Richard was born, his father bought land in Yourba Linda. On the land d
he built a house and started a lemon grove. RichardÆs brothers Frances, Donald and Arthur
were also born in Yourba Linda. 10 years latter the Nixons gave up the struggles of running
an unsuccessful fruit stand and moved back to Whittier. In Whittier the last of the Nixon
children, Edward, was born. Frank started a gas station, where he also began to sell some
groceries. Later he bought an old house which he turned into a general store. When the
boys were old enough to help out they would work at the gas station of in the general
store. Richard became interested in politicks because of his father. Frank started a
neighborhood debate club. When most children were reading fairy tales Richard was reading
the opinion and business pages! RichardÆs life was never easy. Arthur the second youngest
brother of Richard died when he was seven. When Richard was in high school his older
brother, Harold, died of tuberculosis. Richard would also get up at four am and drive 12
miles to a produce market then drive back and arrange the counter before school! When
Richard was 17 he went to Whittier College, a Quaker institution that his mother had
attended. When he was a sophomore he represented Whittier in more than 50 debates and won
most of them. Richard graduated 2nd in his class in 1934 Richard wanted to be a lawyer but
his family was out of money because his brotherÆs long illness had use all of the Nixons
savings. However, his good college Richard and recommendations from his teachers earned
him a scholarship to Duke University, in Durham, NC In Durham Nixon shared a $25 a semester
apartment with three other students. to help pay for this share of the rent he took a job
at the schools library. Richard was named ôGloomy Gusö because of his tendency to brood.
In June of 1937 he graduated third in his class. Five months later Richard was admitted to
the California bar. He joined the firm of Wingert and Bewley in Whittier. Latter the firm
became Bewley, Knoop, and Nixon.
In the Whittier theater group Nixon met ôPatö Ryan, a new teacher in the town high school.
Pat was intelligent and attractive, with red hair and brown eyes. ON June 21, 1940, two
years after their first meeting, they were married. Thelma Ryan was born on March 16, 1912,
in Ely Nevada. Thelma like Richard had a though life. Her Mother died when she was 13 and
then her Dad when she was 17. Pat worked many odd jobs to pay her way through collage. She
even took a few parts in Hollywood movies. After she married Richard she continued to
teach.
In 1942 Richard joined the navy. After World war 2 was over Nixon returned to the United
states. He was then assigned to work on Navy contracts while awaiting discharge. Then he
received a telephone call that changed his life. A republican citizenÆs committee in
Whittier was considering Nixon as a candidate for Congress in the 12th Congressional
District. In December 1945 Nixon accepted the candidacy with the promise that he would
ôwage a fighting rocking socking campaign.ö Jerry Voorhis, a Democrat who had represented
the 12th District since 1934 was running for reelection. Earlier in his career Voorhis had
been an active Socialist. He had become more conservative over the years and was now an
outspoken anti-Communist. Despite VoorhisÆ anti Communist stand the Los Angeles chapter of
the left-wing Political Action Committee (PAC) endorsed him, apparently without his
knowledge or approval. The theme of NixonÆs campaign was ôa vote for Nixon is a vote
against the Communist-dominated PAC.ö The approach was successful. On November 5, 1946
Richard Nixon won his first political election. The NixonsÆ daughter Patricia (called
Tricia) was born during the campaign, on February 21, 1946. July their second daughter was
born July 5, 1948. Richard knew that he could hold his own in the Senate, so he ran for
senate in 1950. Nixon worked as hard as he could . While in Senate he hammered hard at
three main issues: the war in Korea, Communism in government, and the high cost of the
Democratic partyÆs programs. At the 1952 national convention the Republicans chose him as
EisenhowerÆs running mate in an effort to balance the ticket with a West coast
conservative. Eisenhower and NixonÆs campaign seamed doomed once an article entitled
ôSecret Rich MenÆs Trust Fund Keeps Nixon in Style Far Beyond His Salary.ö was published in
The New York Post. After that Republicans were panic-stricken and begging to have Nixon
thrown off the ticket. The secret fund was hardly secret. Nixon was a main without much
money, and when he won a seat in the Senate a group of business men publicly solicited
funds so Nixon could keep in touch with the voters in his home state while he served in the
Senate. Nixon was outraged by this so he went on national TV and delivered what is now
known as the ôCheckersö speech. In the speech Richard states that he had received money
from some business men but used it to campaign not to live the good life. He went on to
say that he kept only one thing, a little cocker spaniel named Checkers. ôThe kids love
that dog, and I want to say right now that regardless of what they say, weÆre going to keep
it.ö
The Republicans easily won the election.
The only duties listed for the vice-president are to preside over the Senate and vote if
there is a tie. Luckily Eisenhower didnÆt agree. He had Richard sit in on cabinet
meetings and help with many president type duties such as preparing and giving speeches.
Because of this he was able to fill in for Eisenhower when he suffered a major hart attack
in 1955, abdominal surgery in 1956, and a mild stroke in 1957. In 1960 the RepublicanÆs
decided to have Richard run for president with running mate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Voters
turned out in record numbers. When all sixty-eight votes were counted John F. Kennedy had
become the firs Roman Catholic resident and Nixon came out the looser loosing by about
100,000 votes. Many of NixonÆs supporters blamed his defeat on irregularities in the votes
in Texas and Illinois. Some blamed it on RichardÆs poor appearance onseveral debates.
After the loose to Kennedy Nixon ran as the Republican candidate for governor of
California. Nixon also lost this race and announced during a press conference that he was
done with politics forever. Later he moved to New York where he entered a law practice.