What was nixon's biggest mistake?
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Getting caught \nHe should have had a buffer between him and the controversy \nand a patsy to blame it on.\nAbove all he should have not got involved and betrayed the voters that put him in office.
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Hoover did plenty in an attempt to counter the depression.  He started a number of programs, increased government spending, and a lot of these programs begun by his administration became cornerstones of the New Deal. He did, however, believe that most aid should come from local, volunteer organizations.  It was more the PERCEPTION that the depression was his fault that led to his downfall.  Consider this-the stock market crash occurred not long after he took office because of factors in place long before his rise to the presidency.  The biggest mistake, the one that certainly hurt our economy and the economy worldwide, was signing the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act into law.  Hoover is a fascinating man, who rose by his own merits to become one of the most well-respected and loved figures of his age, only to bear the brunt of the bad press from the Depression, and then slowly to come back into the public consciousness and die a beloved statesman.
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Nixon was never impeached.  He resigned before congress brought him to trial.  His vice president, Gerald Ford took over just as the constitution directs.\n\nThe scandal involved around whether or not the president either ordered, or knew about the Republican party's attempt to spy on and discredit the Democratic party in the weeks leading up to the election.  That and whether he attempted to cover up the illegal break in at the Watergate hotel.
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To Bush: "Allthough I do not agree with what you say I shall defend to the death your right to say it."\n\nTo Nixon: "Right on brother down with the establishment."
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worst than watergate.
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Both of these Presidents have been extremely misunderstood.  However Nixon was caught in absolute lies and a cover up of criminal activities.  Had he not resigned he would have surely been impeached and after he resigned had he not been pardoned he would have still been impeached.  Nixon did do some very important things while in the job.  He opened the doors to Communist China and ended our participation in the War in Viet Nam.   Bush has been accussed of lying to the American People in order to go to war in Iraq, he has not been accused of lying to Congress in order to get the approval to do so.  All parties had the same Intelligence and the same vote was taken by Congress in 1998 while Clinton was President with the same Intelligence then as well.  Nixon did in fact lie to the American People for which he later paid a heavy price as well as apoligize to the American People.  However it is not against the law to lie to the American Public if it were then our prisons would be full of politicians that ran for office.  Whereas I believe that President Bush if he did in fact lie was not aware that what he was saying was not the truth at the time he said it.  Nixon did know and did it anyway.  The WMD question will haunt all of us for years to come, if they don't end up in the hands of a terrorist group as is thought what has happened in Amann, Jordan within the past few weeks in a plot that was foiled by the same intelligence that we complain about President Bush abusing our rights by listening to our International calls and e-mails.\n\nAfter Nixon resigned the office of President of the U.S. he was considered the most hated man in history in polls that were done at that time.  This pushed Adolph Hitler to number two for the first time in over 30 years.  When Nixon died there were people lined up for Eight Miles to walk by and pay their respects to a man who had once been President.  I believe that History is going to prove the Bush was right, however it may be a few years after he is out of office before that happens.  We here in America always seem to complain about the President that we have at the time and love them when the are retired.
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Actually, Nixon didn't "send his henchmen" in, someone lower in the chain of command of the Committee to Reelect the President (Nixon) in 1972 did.  \n\nThe Democratic National Committee headquarters were in the Watergate Hotel where the breakin occurred in an attempt to spy on the DNC.  Nixon found out about it well after the fact and, not having "sent" anyone to do it, wasn't pleased that it happened.\n\nNixon's problems stemmed from the attempt to cover up the fact that his people did it after he found out about it, not that he had anything to do with the actual break in.\n\n"Watergate" was an umbrella name for a series of events in addition to the break in that were discovered in the investigation. . the "Dirty Tricks Squad" the Committee to Reelect had, the slush fund the committee maintained from off the books cash contributions, and other things.
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the cause was that Nixon was paranoid because JFK had stolen an earlier election from him with help from the mob in chicago.  So basically he did something stupid (had the plumbers break into the democrats headquarters) because he thought something like that might happen again.  The effect was that he was forced to resign so that charges weren't brought against him.
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Many historians think that he's the worst in SOME AREAS.  For instance, his handling of the environment has been deemed the worst, and that even George Washington had more regard for the environment.  His tax policies that benefit mostly the rich are also extreme, in that they make Nixon look like a flaming liberal.  I think he has mis-handled the war in Iraq, but we also had Vietnam in recent history.  It is all a matter of opinion, and my opinion is that he definitely isn't the BEST president we've ever had.  And one can truly make the argument that he was put there by his peers so they (Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, etc) could run the country.  I actually feel pretty sorry for him, because I think he's just a simple guy that got in too deep.
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Frankly I was not aware of this till now. But I did some 1 hour research for you question and here is what I found out.\n\nKennedy used "Castro-Card" to defeat Nixon as the Cold War was in full force. But he was unaware that the CIA had all planned and was more than happy to have the hawkish Kennedy to get elected.\n\nApparently Kennedy developed cold feet and tried to avoid "US Involvement" and did some utterly stupid changes to the plan which nothing but doomed the invasion. Its the worst fiasco to hit the Kennedy Administration.\n\nHere are some links with more material for your essay. If possible buy/rent that book "Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs ". You will blow your peers' essays with your explosive view points...\n\nAll the Best. Please do message me as how you did and what score it fetched to you..\n\n.:Fishie:.
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Politically they both scored great landslides in their bids for the Presidency.  I think that Reagan would have took Nixon in a knock down drag out fight as well as would have beat him politically as well.  Reagan as an actor played his greatest role as a politician.
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Bush the Decider is the worst President America has ever had. I thought nobody could out do Nixon, and Bush the Decider is the one.
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the president was blamed for all of it.  'dirty tricks' got way out of hand when watergate happened.
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The biggest one is BUSH borrowing funds from Communists to add to our national debt. China is Communist, and that would have been treason several years ago, well not so many years ago, with Regan or even Clinton.
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I bet some of the worst ones like Nixon were very intelligent, but I think Bill Clinton was supposed to be really smart.. \n\nin the low end I have to say GW has showed some low 80 capabilities
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I liked Nixon. The people have been lied to about Nixon. He did alot of good.\n    If it were not for Nixon people would not say "I am not a crook" in a crooked manner when mocking him.
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Richard Nixon up until he got caught doing what they all do anyway.