Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th presi… Read Full Bio ↴Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His five years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the first crewed Moon landings, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early, when he became the only president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, and then moved with his wife Pat to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. After active duty in the Naval Reserve during World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His work on the Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist, which elevated him to national prominence, and in 1950, he was elected to the Senate. Nixon was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 election, and served for eight years as the vice president. He ran for president in 1960, narrowly lost to John F. Kennedy, then failed again in a 1962 race for governor of California, after which it was widely believed that his political career was over. However, in 1968, he made another run for the presidency and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey by less than one percentage point in the popular vote, as well as defeating third party candidate George Wallace.
Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973 and the military draft in the same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he also then concluded the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. In step with his conservative beliefs, his administration incrementally transferred power from the federal government to the states. Nixon's domestic policy saw him impose wage and price controls for 90 days, enforce desegregation of Southern schools, establish the Environmental Protection Agency, and begin the War on Cancer. Additionally, his administration pushed for the Controlled Substances Act and began the War on Drugs. He also presided over the Apollo 11 Moon landing, which signaled the end of the Space Race. He was re-elected with a historic electoral landslide in 1972 when he defeated George McGovern.
In his second term, Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli losses in the Yom Kippur War, a conflict which led to the oil crisis at home. From 1973, ongoing revelations leading from the Nixon administration's involvement in Watergate eroded his support in Congress and the country. Nixon and senior members of his administration were found to have weaponized government agencies against his enemies, among other wrongdoing. On August 9, 1974, facing almost certain impeachment and removal from office, Nixon resigned from the presidency. Afterwards, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. During nearly 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote his memoirs and nine other books. He undertook many foreign trips, rehabilitating his image into that of an elder statesman and leading expert on foreign affairs. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age of 81. Surveys of historians and political scientists have ranked Nixon as a below-average president. However, evaluations of him have proven complex, with the successes of his presidency contrasted against the circumstances of his departure from office.
(From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)
Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, and then moved with his wife Pat to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. After active duty in the Naval Reserve during World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His work on the Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist, which elevated him to national prominence, and in 1950, he was elected to the Senate. Nixon was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 election, and served for eight years as the vice president. He ran for president in 1960, narrowly lost to John F. Kennedy, then failed again in a 1962 race for governor of California, after which it was widely believed that his political career was over. However, in 1968, he made another run for the presidency and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey by less than one percentage point in the popular vote, as well as defeating third party candidate George Wallace.
Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973 and the military draft in the same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he also then concluded the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. In step with his conservative beliefs, his administration incrementally transferred power from the federal government to the states. Nixon's domestic policy saw him impose wage and price controls for 90 days, enforce desegregation of Southern schools, establish the Environmental Protection Agency, and begin the War on Cancer. Additionally, his administration pushed for the Controlled Substances Act and began the War on Drugs. He also presided over the Apollo 11 Moon landing, which signaled the end of the Space Race. He was re-elected with a historic electoral landslide in 1972 when he defeated George McGovern.
In his second term, Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli losses in the Yom Kippur War, a conflict which led to the oil crisis at home. From 1973, ongoing revelations leading from the Nixon administration's involvement in Watergate eroded his support in Congress and the country. Nixon and senior members of his administration were found to have weaponized government agencies against his enemies, among other wrongdoing. On August 9, 1974, facing almost certain impeachment and removal from office, Nixon resigned from the presidency. Afterwards, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. During nearly 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote his memoirs and nine other books. He undertook many foreign trips, rehabilitating his image into that of an elder statesman and leading expert on foreign affairs. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age of 81. Surveys of historians and political scientists have ranked Nixon as a below-average president. However, evaluations of him have proven complex, with the successes of his presidency contrasted against the circumstances of his departure from office.
(From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)
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Resignation Address
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@rikerdodger
John Laszek I was a little younger, I think about 8 or so, but I even remember the Senate Watergate Hearings, which were carried on PBS during the day, and then on the networks during the evening hours.
I knew it was important, but I did not really understand what it was all about. Young children tend to be very literal, and I remember wondering if all this had to do with a dam of some sort, and then when there was all the focus on the tapes, I thought they were talking about adhesive tape, not tape recordings.
I also remember seeing Nixon with the 5 O'clock shadow, and the flop sweat during those speeches, under the lights. I later learned that they had turned the air conditioners on in the Oval Office, so that the temperatures were barely above freezing, in a (vain) effort to control the perspiration on his face.
I can also recall that my home state, Massachusetts, had been the only state which Nixon lost in 1972. There were many bumper-stickers over the next 18 months which said, "Massachusetts was right".
Knowing what I know now, I have to wonder why such a strongly introverted person would EVER want to enter politics. He hated the small talk, was awkward with crowds, PAINFULLY awkward, and he just could not tell a joke. And his attempts at humor were almost painful to watch.
During one press conference, when a reporter asked why Nixon was always so angry with the press, Nixon tried to joke that he was not angry with them, because you can only get angry with people you respect. Needless to say, that attempt at a joke went over like a lead balloon.
He would have been better advised to joke about himself, which Jack (and eventually his brother Bobby, who had never had a "leading role" -- he was in the background supporting his brother, but he managed to overcome his own shyness, and find his own voice.) Kennedy was so gifted at self-deprecating humor and it really disarmed the press.
It also helped that Kennedy was the first to hold live press conferences, and he was personally friendly with many of the press, because until his brother Joe was killed, Jack had planned to get into journalism and writing.
I agree with those who said that Nixon would have been a happier man if he had pursued an academic career, becoming a writer. He was many things, deeply insecure (to the point of paranoia), but he certainly had a great intellect, and could easily have gotten a position at those Ivy League Schools that he despised so much.
He was accepted to Yale, but had to turn it down because of family issues -- he had brothers who were quite ill with tuberculosis, for which there was little in the way of effective treatment at that time.
But Nixon, envious of the "Eastern Establishment" was certainly successful -- not many manage to get elected President. He achieved all of that, and yet never seemed to enjoy any of it.
@brianbernstein3826
@@wilsonfisk6626
Carter was just bad.
Reagan was pretty good... about the best the republican party is capable of producing.
Bush Sr. was decent... Bush W would be the single worst president of all time were it not for Trump.
Clinton was fantastic as president (left us with a budget surplus etc). Just a perv and a liar (what politician isn't though)
Obama was good. Catered to every republican whim like a total wimp, but a fantastically strong speaker and motivator.
@jemert96
They cut Nixon's first sentence: "I REALLY did not want to make this video.."
@g0694
He also forgot the common sigh
@enderchicken228
and trying to regain composure after finishing crying
@yan-qu5zm
and kissing his dog
@robjef622
Probably the most he ever spoke in the past 10 years.
@bobiboulon
I don't know, I just watched a full archive of this speech, which includes a part when he casually talks and jokes with staff members before it's live, and we don't hear him say this sentence. What was cut is the very begining of the speech, where he says "Good evening. The is the 37th time I have spoken to your from the office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this nation. Each time, I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believed affected the nationnal interest."
I heard that some people remember saw him crying on TV before/after that speech, and there's nothing like this in the archived video either, so I'm actually perplexed. Does anyone has any source video of this?
@mattjohnston5807
If Nixon could only see what politicians get away with today in America.
@patrickmccarthy5617
“They did what now?”
- Former President Nixon, 2020
@jimb6554
Yeah like Obama spying on the Trump campaign using a deceitfully obtained fisa warrant which is basically the same that Nixon did.
@jthegoat38
@@jimb6554 I want some evidence