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Nixon did not let this presidency bring him down. Nixon went on for another run at the presidency. WHen Richard Nixon was campaign he reciveved an unexpected boost when on March 31, incumbent President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run another term in presidency. Nixon won the election by nearly 500,000 votes. As he sworn in as the 37th president of the U>S on January 20,1969.

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1. Born in Yorba Linda in 1913, Nixon moved to Whittier in 1922.
2. Nixon graduated 2nd in his class at Whittier College.
3. Nixon graduated 3rd in his class at Duck University School of Law.
4. Married Patricia Ryan at the nearby Mission Inn.
5. In 1942, Nixon joined the Navy, serving on the South Pacific during World War ll.
6. Paris 1973, Nixon ended the war in Vietnam by signing the Historic Paris Peace Accords.
7. Nixon appointed four justices to the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Warren Burger and a future Chief Justice, William Rehnquist.
8. Nixon wrote ten best sellers on domestic and international affairs.
9. Nixon was elected to Congress in 1946 and then was re-elected in 1948.
10. Nixon was elected to the U.S Senate from California.

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Richard Nixon was going against John F. Kennedy. Nixon advocated for a series of selective tax cuts that would become a core doctrine of the Republican economic policy going forward. IN November 1960, Nixon narrowly lost the presidential election, by only 120,00 votes. AS the Electoral College put their vote on John. F. Kennedy, who receive 3003 votes and Nixon received 219 votes.

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On September of 23, 1952, Nixon delivered a nationally televised address, as he acknowledged the existence of the fund, however it was denied that nay of it had been used improperly. As this was a major set back for him. Even though Nixon speech ad failed , the public responded to what become known now as " Checkers".

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Richard Nixon 's at the Republican convention in 1952, won the nomination as Vice president. However, 2 months before the November election, the New York Post reported stated that Nixon had a secret "slush fund" provided by campaign donors for his personal use. Eisenhower was deciding to remove Nixon however he realized he had no chance of winning without having Nixon on his team.

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Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He was a Republican Congressman who has severed as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nixon ran for president in president in 1960, however he ended up losing the charismatic Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy.

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In 1974 he signed rather then be impeachment for covering  up illegal activities of party members in the Watergate affairs.

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Richard Nixon was second of five children. Father is Frank Nixon, he was a service station owner and grocer.
Mother Hannah Mihous Nixon who was a Quaker who exerted a strong influence on her son. His younger brother died in 1925 after a short illness. As in 1933, his older brother, who died of tuberculosis.

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Richard Nixon died of a massive stroke in New York City. Nixon body lays in repose in the Nixon Library lobby. He was buried beside his wife at his birthplace.

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A group Whittier Republicans encouraged Nixon to run for congress. He was up against five-term Liberal Democratic Jerry Voorhis, however, that did not stop him from running. On November 1946, Nixon win a seat in the U.S House of Representatives. During his first term he was assigned to the selected Committee on Foreign Aid. After that he went to Europe to report on the newly enacted Marshall Plan. He was also a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Within this he took up a leading role in the investigation of Alger Hiss. In 1950, Nixon successfully then ran for U.S Senate against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. Within this he got nicknamed " Tricky Dick"