Richard milhous nixon
Transcript of Richard milhous nixon
January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994
the 37th President (1969 to 1974)
the 36th Vice President (1953 to 1961)
The only person to be elected twice to both the
Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
A member of the Republican Party, he was the
only President to resign the office.
Parents: A. Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon (the Quakers)4 brothers: Harold (1909–1933), Donald
(1914–1987), Arthur (1918–1925), and Ed (born 1930).
Four of the five Nixon boys were named after early English kings
Richard was named after Richard the Lionheart
attended Fullerton High School in Fullertonlater he transferred to Whittier High School,
where he graduated second in his class in 1930.
Richard was offered a scholarship to Harvardtook up a scholarship to Whittier College,a
local Quaker school, where he co-founded a fraternity known as The Orthogonian Society.
Nixon was :a formidable debaterstandout in collegiate drama productionsstudent body president
1933, Nixon became engaged to Ola Florence Welch
Nixon received a full scholarship to Duke University School of Law.
Nixon was elected president of the Duke Bar Association and graduated third in his class in June 1937.
Marriage Thelma "Pat" Ryanwed at a small ceremony on June 21, 1940.After a honeymoon in Mexico, the Nixons
moved to Long BeachIn January 1942, they moved to Washington,
D.C., where Richard Nixon took a job at the Office of Price Administration.
he joined the United States Navy(the attack on Pearl Harbor)
Lieutenant Commander.He was elected to the House of
Representatives in 1946 representing California's 12th congressional district.
1950 he was elected to the United States Senate as the Junior Senator from California.
1952 one of the youngest Vice Presidents in history.
1968 ran again for President of the United States and was elected.
In the Senate…Against the global communismHe supported statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii, voted in favor of civil rights for minorities, and supported federal disaster relief for India and Yugoslavia
He voted against price controls and other monetary controls, benefits for illegal immigrants, and public power
1969–1973Nixon set out to reconstruct the Western
Alliance, developed a relationship with China, pursued arms control agreements with the Soviet Union, activated a peace process in the Middle East, restrained inflation, implemented anti-crime measures, accelerated desegregation, and reformed welfare. The most immediate task, however, was the Vietnam War.
U.S. space program
Nixon visits the Apollo 11 astronauts in quarantine aboard USS Hornet.
On November 14, 1969, he became the first incumbent president to attend a rocket launch, Apollo 12. Nixon's signature is included on the plaque left by the Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon in 1969.
On January 5, 1972, Nixon approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program
NASA's budget declined
On May 24, 1972, Nixon approved a five-year cooperative program between NASA and the Soviet space program
The comprehensive health insurance
February 6, 1974, he introduced the Comprehensive Health Insurance Act.
(employers purchase health insurance for
their employees)provided a federal health plan, similar to
Medicaid, that any American could join by paying on a sliding scale based on income
Yom Kippur War and 1973 oil crisis
The Nixon administration supported Israel, during the Yom Kippur War.
Nixon cut through inter-departmental squabbles and bureaucracy to initiate an airlift of American arms.
1973 oil crisis; the members of OPEC decided to raise oil prices in response to the American support of Israel
On January 2, 1974, Nixon signed a bill that lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 miles per hour (88.5 km/h) to conserve gasoline during the crisis.
1973, OPEC reduced volumes of oil output to influence world prices, which had to play in their hands
pressed down on the world community to refuse to help Israel
Almost all countries of Africa refused to helpSo, that political position strengthened
dependence of Israel on the USA and opened true scales of dependence of the developed countries of the prices for oil.
Oil crisis promoted strengthening of export of oil to the west from Soviet Union.
Watergate scandal
June, 17th 1972 in a staff of the candidate in
presidents from George Makgoverna's
Democratic party, located in the Washington
complex "Uotergejt", 5 people were detained in
hotel for burglary.
They were engaged in adjustment of
overhearing equipment and, according to some
information, photographing of internal
documents of the democrats.
Nixon refused to give evidences refering to
that executive power has privileges
Has been accused of partnership of a crime
and has retired
On April 22, 1994, he died (he was 81)
In popular culture
1987 an opera, «Nixon In China»In «Oliver Stone's» 1995In the 1999 movie comedy «Dick»In the film «Secret Honor» in the song "The Love of Richard Nixon" by Manic
StreetNixon's head is a recurring character in FuturamaStuart Milligan portrayed Nixon in the 2011
«Doctor»«The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon»,
which took place in 1969, in the months leading to the Apollo 11 launch.
Gloomy Gus - nickname awarded by his fellow students at Duke University School of Law, referring to his serious nature
Iron Butt - Law school nickname because he studied so hard
The Mad Monk Given to him by White House aide John Ehrlichman.
Tricky Dick From a Democratic Party ad leading up to the 1950 U.S. Senate election in California saying "Look at 'Tricky Dick' Nixon's Republican Record."