Richard M. Nixon: The Transformation from Disgraced President to Senior Statesman have chosen a plan for peace for Vietnam. I believe it will succeed. If it does succeed, what the critics say now won't matter. If it does not succeed, anything I say then won't matter. - Richard M. Nixon, televised address to the nation, 1969
hile no one would likely call America's long-term involvement in Vietnam as "success" by any measure, historians record that Richard Milhous Nixon set the stage for ending American's involvement in a war he did not start. Today, Nixon occupies a unique place in American history as both the only president to resign the office in disgrace (over the events surrounding the atergate cover-up and the resulting scandal), as well as being the statesmanlike "foreign policy president" who opened relations with Red China and helped to guide the nation through the miasma that was Vietnam and…...

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Works Cited

Bochin, Hal W. Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Evans, Rowland, Jr. And Robert D. Novak

Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

Flippen, J. Brooks. Nixon and the Environment. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was the 37th president (1968-1974) of United States of America. (Nixon foundation) He was only president who resigned from the presidency of U.S. He was elected to the office in 1968. His second term as president was over shadowed by scandals like Water Gate. He resigned from the office in 1974.
Early Years

Richard Nixon was born in California on Jan. 9, 1913 from wedlock of Hannah Milhous Nixon and Francis A. Nixon. The Nixon's were Scots-Irish and the Milouses, of Irish and English descent. They had five sons and Richard Nixon was second amongst his brothers. When Richard was nine they shifted to Whittier Calif. His father Francis owned a country store and a gasoline pump [1]. They were a devoted religious Christian Quaker family. Richard often visited the Friends Churches along with his mother. His mother brought him up as a conservative Quaker and hoped that Richard…...

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Bibliography

The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace. Accessed from the web 9th Nov. 2003

WWW.nixonfoundation.org

The White House Past Presidents Accessed from the web 9th Nov. 2003

WWW.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/37.html

His actions were atypical because he actually committed these crimes to the highest extent, going so far as to avoid accountability even when presented with evidence that indeed, he was heavily linked to Watergate break-in. However, his behavior towards his political rivals and towards politics, in general, was typical in the sense that he became paranoid and insecure, and his commitment of these crimes reflected his need to verify whether he still wields power and influence over his political allies and the citizenry. Thus, he felt the need to "spy" against his rivals and abuse his power by avoiding accountability and doing his responsibility to pay his taxes. He became consumed by the power and influence embedded in his position as President that he forgot the extent of his accountability to the people -- that these privileges of power and influence are duly given by the people, and not…...

("Cambodia and Laos," n.d.)
Then, when Nixon begins talking about peace negotiations with the North, is when he is providing a glimpse into a shift in strategy. Where, the U.S. will play China and the Soviet Union against one another. This is important because, American forces were restricted from conducting air strikes in the North. The ability to forge an alliance with China allowed Nixon to begin bombing Hanoi. This is significant because the Christmas bombings of Hanoi (in 1972) were arguably one element that helped pushed the North Vietnamese to sign the Paris Peace Treaty of 1973. ("Linebacker II ombing Raids," n.d.)

In one aspect, Nixon is correct in that the future of his strategy will bring the North Vietnamese to the bargaining table. However, the North would not give up on their ambitions for a unified Vietnam, as they would wait until Nixon was no longer in power. At…...

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Bibliography

Address to the Nation on Vietnam. (1971, April 7). Retrieved April 11, 2010 from American Rhetoric website: http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/richardnixonvietnamsituation.html

Cambodia and Laos. (n.d.). Retrieved April 11, 2010 from Spartacus website: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNcambodia.htm

Linebacker II Bombing Raids. (n.d.). Retrieved April 11, 2010 from Centennial Off Flight website: http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/Linebacker/AP41.htm

Nixon before the presidency
Military

Congress & Senate seat

Vice Presidency

The election

1972 election and illegal activity

Pardon and Conclusion

Richard Nixon holds the distinction of being the only United States president to resign the office. Had he not done so, in all likelihood he would have been impeached and forced out of the hite House. hile in office President Nixon performed a myriad of activities which were at the very least immoral, but often also illegal. hat started out as a regime supposedly dedicated to exploration, expansion, and a pledge to end the Vietnam ar ended in shame and disgrace. Before Nixon, Americans more or less bought into the words of the politicians in the country. Although there were instances of corruption and distrust, these were considered to be in the minority. It was felt that most politicians wanted to help their constituents and do right by the population who live in this nation.…...

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Works Cited

Black, Conrad. Richard M. Nixon: a Life in Full. New York, NY: Public Affairs. 2007. Print.

Gellman, Irwin. "The Richard Nixon Vice Presidency: Research Without the Nixon

Manuscripts." A Companion to Richard M. Nixon. Ed. Melvin Small. Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. 102-20. Print.

Roark, J., Johnson, M., Cohen, P., Stage, S., Lawson, A., and Hartmann, S. The

Introduction It took two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, for the last of the American prisoners to be released by Hanoi and American troops to exit South Vietnam. The closing of an eight-year long war in Vietnam ended. Saigon had an estimated 7,000 American Department of Defense civilian workers remain to assist South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam. The Vietnam War was a taxing experience for everyone in the United States. It took over five presidencies with the last presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford having to deal with the ongoing struggle and aftermath of the war.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson became engulfed in the war as it became the major initiative in his presidency. President Nixon had to deal with public outcry from American citizens and pulling back of American troops. Former President Gerald R. Ford declared a formal end to the…...

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American History. (2017). American Military Strategy in the Vietnam War, 1965–1973 - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Retrieved from  

Anderson, D. L. (1999). The Military and Diplomatic Course of the Vietnam War. Retrieved from  http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/anderson.htm 

Chase, J. (1985, April 7). How America \\'Lost the Peace\\'. Retrieved from  http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/14/specials/nixon-vietnams.html?mcubz=3 

History Staff. (2010). Vietnamization - Vietnam War - HISTORY.com. Retrieved from  http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnamization 

Sema, F. P. (2015, April 28). Nixon’s Retrospective on the Vietnam War | The Diplomat. Retrieved from  http://thediplomat.com/2015/04/nixons-retrospective-on-the-vietnam-war/ 

 

http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-239 

They were spying on Democratic camp with the intent of providing evidence to the president. Nixon's authorization of such illegal surveillance was apparently common in the hite House, as Nixon kept a famous "enemies list" of all of the people whom he disliked in America, and taped most conversations that took place in the Oval Office. Capone similarly, as 'Boss' used underlings to do his dirty work. A "typical Capone murder consisted of men renting an apartment across the street from the victim's residence and gunning him down when he stepped outside. The operations were quick and complete and Capone always had an alibi." ("History Files: Al Capone," The Chicago Historical Society, 1999) Capone was only finally incarcerated on charges of tax evasion, not orchestrating murders, which most law enforcement officials thought merely scratched the surface of his evildoings, much as many of Nixon's critics felt that his spying…...

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Biography of Richard Nixon." Watergate Info. 1995. [8 Dec 2006]  http://www.watergate.info/nixon/ 

History Files: Al Capone." The Chicago Historical Society. 1999. http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone/cpn2.html

Seize the Moment -- Richard Nixon
Nixon's Life and Legacy

The book by Richard Nixon, Seize The Moment, was published eighteen years after Nixon had resigned the presidency of the United States. The former president was caught up in a cover-up of the atergate scandal in 1973, and even though he had asked for the resignation of his two top aides, as the investigation into the botched burglary at atergate continued it was clear Nixon was part of the cover-up, and he had to resign -- the first president in the history of the U.S. To resign his position.

Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. According to the Encyclopedia of orld Biography his father mistreated Nixon physically and his mother was "manipulative," who, the biography points out, resulted in Nixon's "drive to succeed" that included his willingness to "pretend to be 'good' while using any tactics necessary to…...

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Works Cited

Encyclopedia of World Biography. "Richard Milhous Nixon." Retrieved October 5, 2011, from GaleGroup.com / Gale Biography in Context.

Nixon, Richard. Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World. New York, 1992.

1962, Americans didn't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore. Nixon, disillusioned at having lost California to the Democrats after having battled for the White House two years earlier, was on the retreat alongside most of the old-guard conservatives in America. This trend is one that had favored only moderate Republicans like Eisenhower after the anti-communists of the early 50's had squandered the Grand Old Party's last congressional majority. Kennedy was a centrist that wished to modify his party's "New Deal" legacy for a more middle-class electorate while continuing to champion the traditions of America as an alternative to olshevism. y 1980, the conservative movement came to dominate the governments of the United States and United Kingdom as it employed rhetoric that appealed to traditional Christians and to libertarians who wished to curtail government spending. An analysis of what took place between these two events reveals an electorate disillusioned…...

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Rick Perlstein. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. New York: Hill and Wang.

Lisa McGirr. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Matthew Dallek. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics. New York: The Free Press.

Introduction While Nixon may not represent or symbolize the height of the Cold War, he does represent an era in American history plagued by government corruption and large-scale public dissatisfaction with the government in general. Nixon came to power on the heels of four politically motivated assassinations: JFK in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and MLK, Jr., and RFK in 1968. Robert Kennedy had been running against Nixon in the 1968 election, and his brother had beaten Nixon in the 1960 election. The deaths of both Kennedys were a reminder that something was not right in the state of Washington, D.C.—and Nixon seemed to be right in the thick of it. His famous words, “I am not a crook,” became lampooned in pop culture, and his presidency came to an early end with his resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Nixon has been the subject of several films, both…...

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Adorno Theodor and Max Horkheimer. The Culture Industry. Routledge, 1944.

Bell hooks. “Cultural criticism and transformation.”

Cahn, S. Classics of Western Philosophy. Indianapolis, IN: Hacket, 2012.

Dean, John. The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It. NY: Viking, 2014.

Elliott, William; Schenck-Hamlin, William. “Film, Politics and the Press: The Influence of ‘All the President’s Men’.” Journalism Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3 (Fall 1979): 546-555.

Funderburk, Charles. “Politics and the Movie.” Teaching Political Science, vol. 6, no. 1 (1978): 111-116.

Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature from Jekyll Island. Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 1995.

Hougan, Jim. Secret Agenda. NY: Random House, 1984.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUuHFKP-9s

Nixon and the Legacy of the War in Vietnam
Nixon & Vietnam

Nixon Doctrine

President ichard Nixon set out policy goals for the conflict in Vietnam in a speech to the nation on November 3, 1969. At the time the country was deeply divided over the question of our presence in the region. In this speech Nixon claimed a nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allies and down its friends and that a unilateral withdrawal of all United States forces would humiliate our nation and promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest and spark violence wherever the nations commitments helped to keep the peace. A withdrawal of American forces would in the final analysis cost more lives and not bring peace, but more war. Nixon asserted that for these reasons he would not end the war immediately, but would…...

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Kerry, J. (1971, April 22). Vietnam war veteran John Kerry's testimony before the senate foreign relations committee, April 22, 1971. Ernest Bolt (Ed.). University of Richmond, Online ACS Course Fall 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2012, from https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

Nixon, R. (1969, November 3). Nixon's 'silent majority' speech. Watergate.info Retrieved November 30, 2012, from  http://watergate.info/1969/11/03/nixons-silent-majority-speech.html 

Nixon, R. (1973, January 23). Nixon's 'peace with honor' broadcast on Vietnam. Watergate.info Retrieved November 30, 2012, from  http://watergate.info/1973/01/23/nixon-peace-with-honor-broadcast.html

Then he continued to express his understanding towards those who had been so vehement in their opposition of the war during the previous years.

After he explained the current state, he returned to the past in order to further prove his point. He began speaking about the origin of the war and America's early involvement in the overseas conflict, which many had no idea why we would have begun our involvement in the first place. He uses specific examples based on the actions of previous presidents, who were extremely popular within the eyes of the American public. He explains the actions of President Eisenhower and President Kennedy, who were both adored by the American public, as a way to show that his actions were just a follow through of those executed by previous great men.

Then after he has set up the justification for his plan, he explains what he really intends…...

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American Rhetoric. "Richard M. Nixon's 'The Great Silent Majority.'" http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/richardnixongreatsilentmajority.html.2008.

Center for History and New Media. "Silent Majority." The Hard Hats Riots. http://chnm.gmu.edu/hardhats/silent.html.2008

Rowland, Robert C. "The Ethos of Rhetoric." Argumentation and Advocacy. Vol. 41.

Terada, Rei. "Pathos (Allegories of Reading)." Studies of Romanticism. Vol. 39. 2000.

Nixon
Most Americans know that former President Clinton just had his library dedication in Arkansas. He was a popular president and even the Monica Lewinski scandal was not enough to taint his legacy. Unfortunately, Richard Nixon's library does not seem to have the same prestigious following as Bill Clinton seems to have. Consider that just after Christmas of last year; the Nixon's Foundation and Library won an award that almost no American on the street knows anything about. I have to admit that before I saw the Dimitri Simes who is the current President of the Nixon Center in ashington, D.C., I never even considered that there was a Nixon Foundation. "The Nixon Center is the Nixon Foundation's programmatically independent public policy institute. It recently celebrated its 10th anniversary by acquiring The National Interest, a prestigious foreign policy journal, and by presenting its Distinguished Service Award to Mikhail Baryshnikov at a…...

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Works Cited

C-Span. Interview with Simes, Dimitri. Nixon Center Chief On C-SPAN: Simes Enters Ring on Boxing Day. Washington, D.C. December 23, 2004.

Nixon, Richard M. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Touchstone, 1990.

Reeves, Richard. President Nixon: Alone in the White House. New York: Touchstone, 2001.

President Nixon also was personally fascinating with this area of policy has hand-written notes to astronauts are enclosed in plastic for reading and review. What's fascinating about this exhibit is the budget for the space programs including NASA is also posted. By today's figures, it looks quite small, and it's deliberately posted to show how small the investment is for how much value is generated as a result. This is one of the most patriotic exhibits there are in the entire library and museum.
Domestic Affairs

Richard Nixon's involved in Watergate is lightly touched on; there is not that much investigative analysis of the events as there is an exhibit which was closed. Domestic policy including the Vietnam War and the plight of prisoners of war is shown graphically. The anti-war protests are also given equal presentation. The curators of the library and museum attempt to show how complex and difficult…...

She writes, "The tendency among modern leaders to ignore constitutional or legislative restrictions when it suits their personal convictions on particular issues and to take secret actions, especially on foreign policy matters, is a serious problem for all mature Western democratic nations" (Hoff 13). Perhaps she is more intuitive than first expected. Her comments seem extremely relevant during a time when foreign countries are ignoring sanctions on nuclear weapons and genocide, and the U.S. is in turmoil over the war in raq and other human rights issues. Hoff seems to understand the nature of the modern president in great detail, and it would be interesting to read more of her work and opinions on current and recent presidents like Clinton, Reagan, and G.W. Bush.
n conclusion, author Joan Hoff offers an intimate and fascinating look inside the life and thoughts of former President Nixon. Nixon was one of the most…...

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In conclusion, author Joan Hoff offers an intimate and fascinating look inside the life and thoughts of former President Nixon. Nixon was one of the most notable and disliked American presidents, but this book shows many of his accomplishments and successes. She quotes another historian, "If we have peace over the next fifty years, I think Nixon will go down in the history books as one of our truly great Presidents. The Watergate episode will then receive a mere footnote in the history books. -- Arthur Burns, remarks at a public forum, October 29, 1985" (Hoff 329). This may not be the conclusion of many other historians, but Hoff uses her research to present and prove her thesis, backs it up with examples, and even though she may have some bias on the issues, she does not allow them to cloud her conclusions entirely. There may be a more balanced view of Nixon and his presidency, but Hoff's research outweighs her bias and indicates that perhaps Richard Nixon is one of the most misunderstood presidents of the modern era. His accomplishments just may outweigh the Watergate affair, but unfortunately, that is what most people remember about Richard M. Nixon. Perhaps if they read this book, they would have a different opinion of the man and his legacy.

References

Hoff, Joan. Nixon Reconsidered. New York: Basic Books, 1994.