Presidents report essays

Presidents report essays This paper will prove Richard M. Nixon wasnt such a bad president at all or at least better than some presidents. Richard Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States and was the only president to resign from office. Nixon was a follower of Quakerism and he was president during the Vietnam War and when the astronauts landed on the moon. Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in, Yorba Linda, California. There he attended schools in Yorba Linda, and in nearby towns. Nixon attended Whittier College, a Quaker institution, from 1930 to 1934 where he became president of the student body and won many debating awards. In 1934 he graduated from Whittier College and won a scholarship from the Duke University School of Law. At Duke Nixon became president of the student law association. Nixon graduated from Duke in 1937, third in his class out of forty-four students. After Nixon graduated from Duke the Great Depression was still in place in the United States, there were few jobs. Nixon tried many times to get into law bureaus and firms but was not successful. He returned to Whittier and joined a Whittier Law firm. When he was twenty-six, he joined the Whittier College Board of Trustees. In 1942, Nixon served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Richard M. Nixon was highly qualified for the presidency. Nixon was from the Republican Party. In 1946, Nixon ran for the U.S. House Representatives and won the election, after he was released from the Navy. In 1950, Nixon ran for U.S. Senator in California and won the election by over 700,000 votes. He was also Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower. However, Eisenhower never gave him any support, but he still won the election was put on the ballot by the Republican Party in the 1968 election. He and his running mate both promised that whoever won the election would handle the Vietnam War. His running mate was Hubert H. Humphrey, current vice president, lost the e...