Nixon was the first president to resign after the Watergate scandal. Republicans broke into the Watergate to try to get dirt on the Democrats, he was the vice president of Eisenhower and he lost the 1960 election to JFK. Nixon said that the silent majority was the law abiding majority of good citizens. But the ones getting all the attention and the media were the lawless hippies, and he despised them. Vietnam war dominated his presidency, and it was very unpopular. Promised to end the war, "Peace with Honor". Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos-bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail. Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised. The Nixon Doctrine- "Vietnamization" of the war. Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war.
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