PROS AND CONS

BACKGROUND

• Yorba Linda, California
• Duke Law 1937
• Washington to work for Government
• Joined the navy in World War II
• Served 8 years as Vice President

ELECTION

• Elected President in 1968
• Nixon was the Republican Nominee
• Hubert Humphrey was the democratic nominee
• Nixon lost the presidential election of 1960

PROS

• Focused on foreign relations
• Troops out of Veitnam
• Postal Reorganization Act
• Lowered voting age
• Increased social security benefits

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Started to expand foreign relations with china
• Relations between china and Soviet union got worse
• Richard Nixon met with the chinese leader in China

VIETNAM

• Nixon promised to take 25,000 troops out of the war
• By the end of the war he ordered 60,000 troops out of Veitnam
• The fighting in Vietnam continued

WATERGATE SCANDAL

• There was a break in at The Democratic National Committee.
• Men had been taking pictures of documents and wiretapping phones
• Nixon said no employee of his took part in this scandal
• 1973 evidence was given to judge against nixon
• Richard Nixon resigned shortly after as the result of Watergate

OVERALL PRESIDENCY

• Watergate scandal was ultimately Nixons downfall
• Helped the country through the Vietnam War
• Helped the people of the USA through a tough time

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