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Yorba Linda, California. His parents were Frank Nixon and Hannah Milhouse Nixon. He was the 2nd child of 5 children. They were a poor family, His father owned a service station and lemon farm. He also worked at a grocery store.
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Died of short illness.
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A Quaker College
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Returned to California to practice law and received full scholarship.
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She was a teacher and amatuer actress. They met when casted in the same play. They had 2 kids, Tricia and Julie.
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He started out as lawyer but then in DC, he took a job in Fraklin Roosevelt's Office of Price Administration. He later joined the navy.
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Nixon resigned from his commission
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He loses to JFK. Earlier, he served as VP for Eisenhower for 8 years. He looked tired on the televised debate. Veiwers that watched the debate thought Kennedy had won and the audience that heard it on radio thught Nixon won.
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By the end of 1970, Nixon decreased the amount of black students attending all black schools from 70% to 18%.
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After Earth Day, Nixon was inspired and established the Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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He established the Detente; it was a lessening of tensions between the US and China (our main rivals).
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He wins by a landslide agasint George McGovern.
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Nixon used Vietnameseation to gradually pull our troops out and make South Vietnam more responsible.
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There was a buglary at the Demcratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. The burglars stole any campaign information they could find and place wiretaps on office telephones.They got caught, but Nixon covered them up. Nixon refused to give up his tapes that recorded his own conversations in the White House.Nixon realized he wasnt a popular president anymore.
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Nixon knew he was going to be impeached, so he decidedto resign. He knew that his political support was low.
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At first,Nixon wasreluctant to accept this pardon because he felt he had not comitted any crimes. He eventually agreed and was granted a "full, free, and absolute pardon".
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Nixon becam ill with Plebitis. he was told he could have surgery or die... he chose surgery.
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He begins working on his memiors.
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Personal invite from Mao. He later writes a book called, "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon".
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He dies of a stroke that occered on the 18th. He was 81 years old.
