who was richard Nixon?
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Republican elected to the U.S. House of Reps in 1946 and 1948. Then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1950. Then was elected Vice President in 1952 with Dwight Eisenhower. Then ran for President in 1960 but narrowly lost to Jack Kennedy. Then ran for President again in 1968 and narrowly won. Ran for re-election as President in 1972 and won by a landslide (carried every state except Massachusetts). Then resigned in August, 1974 because he was about to be impeached. The articles of impeachment were mainly directed at the fact that he knew about a breaking-and-entering crime (at the Watergate Hotel, the office of the DNC) and actively tried to cover up the investigation.
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Well never know.\n\nFrom what I read, people didn't believe Nixon could have known about that watergate thing.
423793
History would always be kind to Nixon. He is no way the worst
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Nixon was not actually indicted in the criminal case arising from the break in at the Watergate.  7 men were tried for conspiracy to defraud the US and obstruct justice, wiretapping, and burglary.  All 7 men were part of Nixon's reelection committee.  After being convicted, one of the men told the judge that the Watergate break in and its cover-up were a massive conspiracy and that the defendant lied at the urging of the White House.  In order to investigate these allegations, the prosecutor moved for a "subpoena duces tecum" ordering Nixon to give the court tapes, memos and other papers relating to the incident.  Nixon claimed that he didn't have to give over the materials because they were protected by "executive privilege."  And things went really downhill from there.\nBasically, the most important witnesses were the 7 criminal defendants who were part of the conspiracy and knew that the White House ordered the break in and the cover up.  The tapes were just very dramatic proof of their story.
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I would have to say Nixon becuase he got us out of vietnam and he got relations back with china.  \n\nI know some might say FDR but he was partially responsible for the Cold War becuase before he died, him churchill and Stalin all got together and FDR decided that the USSR should get most of eastern Europe. What a punk.
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Certainly... anyone can do a report on Nixon...
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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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Nixon was impeached, impeached does not mean kicked out of office. Impeached means a trail of sorts against the presidency. \n\nIf Bush is impeached that means Dick Cheney becomes president. So it might not be such a bad thing for someone like myself who actually likes Cheney. Although John Stewart's impersonation is hysterical!!
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The term "Watergate" refers to a series of events, spanning from 1972 to 1974, that began with U.S. President Nixon's administration's abuse of power toward the goal of undermining the Democratic Party and the opposition to the Vietnam War. The events got their name from burglaries of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.. Though Nixon had endured two years of mounting political embarrassments, the court-ordered release of the "smoking gun tape" about the burglaries in August 1974 brought with it the prospect of certain impeachment for Nixon, and he resigned only four days later on August 9. He was the first, and still only, U.S. president to resign from office.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal\n\nwatergate scandal\nhttp://history1900s.about.com/od/watergatescandal/\n\n(1972–75), U.S. political scandal surrounding the revelation of illegal activities on the part of the incumbent Republican administration of President Richard M. Nixon during and after the 1972 presidential election campaign. \nhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076257\nhttp://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9382393?&query=watergate&ct=\n\nAnswers from Yahoo!\nwhat was watergate scandal about?\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006021503147&r=w&is_vote_given=true&pa=BpVqD13uBHMzU.qS4xwPRZPTk5eRoKWSeq9G_gtkqAJgg8zafxk-\n\nWhat was the Watergate Scandal and what were the CAUSES & EFFECTS of the scandal?\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006043010785&r=w&is_vote_given=true&pa=BpVqD13uBHMzU.qS4xwPRZPTkpGdoKWS4nhiQHdj_UnL5fGmCcU-\n\nwhat happened during watergate scandal?\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006041207251\n\nWashingtonpost.com: Watergate\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm\n\nEncyclopedia Americana: Watergate\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/watergte.html\n\nWatergate Info\nhttp://watergate.info/\n\nhttp://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/watergate/\n\nThe watergate scandal/essay\nhttp://www.fratfiles.com/read.php?id=4312\n\nWatergate scandal summary\nhttp://www.corporatenarc.com/watergate.php\n\nwikipedia:watergate scandal\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Watergate_scandal\n\nThe Watergate Scandal: The Unmaking of a Presidency\nhttp://www.answerpoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=571&column_type=feature
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no one has been impeached. nixon resigned
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President Nixon hired a group of ex spies and burglars to break into the Watergate hotel to spy on the Democratic Party headquarters and tap their phones. \nThere were many other illegal incidents before and after but this is where the name came from.
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Depends on how you view worst. Nixon was corupt but did a lot good as well although its was his foreing policy that shined. His domestic agenda was lacking. Carter was benefactor of Nixon's crimes. Carter had no real skills to be President but American wanted an honest man in White House and that what we got. along with long lines at Gas pump and Americans held hostage for a year in Iran. So yes Carter would be on top of my list but I have to feel Bill Clinton was worse and I know many will disagree.
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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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Richard Nixon served in the United States Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
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Nixon was the first to use it during the Watergate Scandal. It was created by Dulles, director of the CIA. As far as I know it hasn't been used lately but who knows...odds are best it is though
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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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Nixon's the one and only!