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"People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."

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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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"The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting" - Richard M. Nixon

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Taxes were slightly raised at times, or not raised at all. Because of this, inflation rates rose at historic rates. The war costed over 168,000,000,000, which is the equivalent to 1 trillion dollars today. This included 111 billion dollars in military operations, and 28.5 billion to aid South Vietnam.

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The Vietnamese War affected Veterans because over 500,000 Veterans developed PTSD due to the conditions in Vietnam, along with rising alcholic, drug, divorce, and suicide rates amongst Veterans. Americna CItizens were also affected because the War-time jobs that were necessary in the past years were no longer needed, changing the economy and lifestyle of an average citizen.

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American Citizens were not supporting the War fully because they did not understand why we would be fighting it. Also, the support for the War fell because of the scarily increasing death toll.

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For the first time ever in U.S History, U.S troops were sent to Vietnam with M1 Garands, M1, M14 and M16 Carbines.

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New chemicals, such as Agent Orange were used to clear brush and kill Viet Cong.

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Elected in 1968, winning slightly. Re-elected in 1972, in one of the most landslide elections in American history.

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Due to Vietnam being a dense Jungle, the Viet Cong would hide in dense brush to ambush Americans. Due to this, the Americans came up with the solution to drop over 20,000,000 gallons of a deadly chemical that cleareds a way for the troops to go through. The "Agent Orange" was incinerated at Sea once the War was over, because it was too deadly to keep stored.

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Because of the Warfare, 500,000 acres of farmland and 5,000,000 acres of forest was destroyed. The War also left over 21,000,000 bomb craters in South Vietnam.

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The consensus amongst Americans after the War was that the Government could not be trusted, due to the media and other sources.

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The changing culture that Vietnam War Veterans had was that the Vietnamese War had caused over 500,000 Veterans to develop PTSD. Rates of suicide, divorice, drugs, and alcoholism also were remarkably higher after the Vietnam War.

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Nixon ended the Vietnam War in 1973, and decided to open trade relations with China. He also made the decision negotiate a treaty with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev to limit strategic nuclear weapons.

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Nixon, whilst running for office, mentioned he had a 'secret plan' for ending the Vietnamese War. He was going to use Vietnamization, which worked extremely well. From 1969 to 1972, U.S. forces in Vietnam shrunk from 500,000 to 30,000. He also used aggressive tactics to halt the War, such as bombing North Vietnamese supply routes in Cambodia.

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Nixon's legacy is that he started a long lasting era of peace with Soviet Russia, starting diplomacy with China, and a slow ending to the Vietnamese War. He is also known for his domestic acts, like OSHA and the Enviormental Protection

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After Nixon was elected in 1968, his Political goals shifted from focusing on the Vietnamese War to focusing on political relations with China and Soviet Russia.

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Vietnamization was a policy of Richard Nixons that was made to end the U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. It's ideas was to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign them to an ever-increasing combat role."

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President Richard Nixon