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Thursday, May 2

Richard Nixon-Only person to be elected twice as President and Vice President, only president to resign, Nixon's second election was a blowout. He took us out of Vietnam. Nixon was a green president (a very environmentally friendly president, War on

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Thursday May 2, 2013

President Blog Discussions

Richard Nixon (R)- 37th 1969-1974

  • Vice-President of Eisenhower
  • Lost 1960 election to JFK
  • the only person to be elected twice to both the presidency and vice presidency
  • only president to resign from office

Elections

  • 1968- against H
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5.2.13

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)(R)

Background:

  • Vice President of Eisenhower
  • Lost 1960 election to JFK
  • the only person to be elected twice to both Presidency and Vice Presidency
  • Only President to resign from office

Election

  • 1968- against Humphrey (Johnson VP) and
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Thurday 5/2/13

Richard Nixon-

  • Background-
    • Vice-president under Eisenhower
    • Lost 1960 election to JFK
    • The only person to be elected twice to both the presidency and the vice-presidency
    • Only president to resign from office
  • Elections-
    • 1968 election-
      • Nixon pledge to end Vietnam
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Thursday, May 2

Richard Nixon

  • Vice-Pres of Eisenhower.
  • Lost 1960 election to JFK.
  • The only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency.
  • Only President to resign from office.
  • 68 election.
    • Against Humphrey and Wallace.
    • Nixon had won. Because he
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Thursday 5/2

finished blog discussions

Nixon-only person to be elected twice to both presidency and vice presidency

only president to resign from office

lost 1960 election to JFK

68- beat Humphrey and Wallace

Nixon won by a small margin

72-Nixon v. McGovern

Nixon won 48

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Thursday. May 2, 2013

Richard Nixon (R) 37th  1969-1974    37th Pres.

Background: Grew up in a middle class family. He was a governor, was part of red scare hysteria, lost 1960 election to JFK. He is the only person to be elected twice both the Presidency and Vice presiden

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Thursday May 2, 2013 Daily Notes

  • Nixon 37th 1969-1974
    • Background
    • Vice President of Eisenhower
    • lost 1960 Election of JFK
    • The only person to be be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidentcy
    • Only president to resign from office
    • Elections
    • 1968
    • Wallas
    • issues with Civil Rights
    • Vi
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5-2-13

Space Race: NASA- space organization

  • soviets led early
  • Sputnik:used to spy
  • made us feel vulnerable
  • made us feel weak in education(science and math)
  • every 20 years there is a push for science and math people
  • Yuri Gagatin-USSR-first explorer
  • 1960-moonshot-JFK
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may 2nd

Nixon:

  • blowout in the 72 election
  • was almost a 50/50 split in the 68 election
  • 72 election was thought to be staged

Dirty tricks:

Edward musky wrote a letter stating that a democratic candidate being gay and another one having an illegitimate child.  Edwar

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May 2nd

Today in Mr bruns class we pick how we are going to take are semester test i am taking the oral test and we did blog disscussion

Nixion Vietia conflict dominated much of his prsidency war became very unpopular

The nixion doctrine vietnamization of the

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Richard Nixon:The Dirty Tricks Campaign = an orginazation used to play tricks (like sending stuff to motels) and distracting the democrats from the campaign and causing democrats to fight amongst themselves causing them to drop out so that he could g
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Thursday May 2, 2013

President Lyndon Johnson- 36th 1963-1969

  • JFK's vice president; took over when Kennedy was assassinated
  • A Senator from Texas originally so Kennedy added him on to his party so that he could use Johnson to get southern votes. (Although they didn't necess
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Thursday May 2, 2013

Richard Nixon Accomplishments:

  • He was a good listner
  • Family Assistant Plan- wanted less federal control (aid to familys)
  • Equal rights amendment- he pushed for women rights in everything (this amendment has never passed)
  • State committees- to get more equa
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Thursday May 2, 2013

Richard Nixon:

  • The Dirty Tricks Campaign = an orginazation used to play tricks (like sending stuff to motels) and distracting the democrats from the campaign and causing democrats to fight amongst themselves causing them to drop out so that he could g
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Thursday, May 2

Today we kept talking about presidents

Harry Truman -33rd President (1945-1953)

  • Became Vice president for FDR in January, 1945
  • Took over for FDR when he died in April, 1945
  • On of the most unpopular presidents of all time when he left office -22% approval
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Thursday May 2, 2013

Richard Nixon

Watergate Break-in

  • Nixon put together this dirty tricks organization
  • In Edward Musky was one of the candidates and they played tricks on him and the others
  • For example Nixon called a bunch of pizza delivery guys to deliver pizza in the name
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May 2, 2013

Today, we continued blog discussions.

-Richard Nixon

  • 37th president
  • 1969-1974
  • Vice- President of Eisenhower
  • Lost 1960 election to JFK
  • The only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency

-Elections

  • Only president to resign from
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