FREE ESSAY ON NIXON

NIXON

Richard Millhouse Nixon, our 37th President of the United States was born on January 9,
1913 on Yorba Linda California. Nixon attended different elementary schools trough out
Yorba Linda, Whittier, and Fullerton. In high school Nixon played football, and he also
got into debating. After high school Nixon attended Whittier Collage, where he became
president of the student body and also won many debating awards. When he graduated
Whittier collage in 1934, he received a scholarship to Duke University School of Law. At
Duke, Nixon was elected president of the student law association and won election to the
Order of the Coif. When he graduated he ranked third in a class of 44 students. After
graduating from Duke Nixon was having a hard time finding a job, since the great
depression had just ended. He tried to joint the FBI and a law firm in New York. He later
returned home and found a job in a small firm. He also meet his future wife Patricia. In
January 1942, Nixon joined the Navy as an ensign. Three years later he got promoted to
lieutenant commander. Nixon's rise to presidency began in 1936, just after he got out of
the navy. He went against democrat Jerry Voorhis, and Nixon won the election after saying
that Voorhis was a Communist. As a representative, Nixon 
worked on the Marshall Plan, and also help write the Taft-Hartley act. In 1948 he was
again reelected to the House. Two years later Nixon ran for US Senator against Helen
Gahagan Douglas. Nixon won the election by 700,000 votes. In the 1952 election, Richard
Nixon was running as Vice President with Dwight D. Eisenhower. There was a dispute over
some money, and Nixon was asked to withdraw from the campaign. After a speech he gave,
Nixon was once aging in the campaign. Eisenhower and Nixon won the election. Nixon
handled the White House's business with very ease, after the President suffered from a
stroke. As Vice president Nixon traveled to every single continent except Antarctica, he
was booed and stoned by Communist in Peru, in Venezuela his car window got smashed. In
1960, Nixon ran for president against JFK. It was one of the closest elections in
history. Nixon lost by 114,673 popular votes. In 1962, Nixon ran for Governor of
California and lost to Edmund G. Brown. Nixon once aging got nominated to run for
President. His opponent this time was Hubert H. Humphrey. They both promised to make
peace with Vietnam. Richard Nixon won the election and became our 37th President. Nixons
main foreign exchange policy was to end the Vietnam war. On 1969 Nixon began holding
troops back. In 1972 Nixon blocked Vietnam's food supply from the Soviet Union. Nixon
also order their state capital to get bombed. Later congress ordered the bombing to stop.
Another foreign exchange policy was to reopen trading with China. China and the United
States hadn't trade since 1953 during the Korean war. In 1972 Richard Nixon and Leonid I.
Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union's Communist party meet and signed a contract to
limit the production of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union also begun to buy wheat from
the United States. Among Nixon's domestic plans that failed were, money that should be
given to needy families with children, and a plan in which federal government should
share tax money with state and local governments. Nixon also helped decrease inflation by
regulating the rent wages and stop salary increases. Richard Nixons failures include the
dramatic inflation rise of 1973. Inflation went up 8.8 %. This was nothing compared to
the Watergate scandal. Nixon was accused of holding evidence from court. Apparently the
evidence were some tapes of him that could lead to the prosecution of the Watergate break
in. Nixon was then impeached. After retiring Nixon spend most of the time paling golf, he
also wrote many books, including The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Nixon was buried with his
wife near the house were he was born in.
Ronald Reagen was born n February 6, 1911, in Tampico Illinois. Ronald Regain didn't come
from a wealthy family,  I realize now that we were poor, but I didn't know it at the
time. his dad was a shoemaker, and his mom was a homemaker. Ronald Regain also had one
brother. 
Ronald's mom liked acting, that is how Reagen became interested in acting at a very early
age. Ronald Reagen was very active in High School, he played Football, Basketball, joined
the track and swimming team, and was also elected president of the student council. After
High School, Reagen didn't enroll in any big university, he went to Eureka Collage. In
collage, Regain played football, also joined the track team, and became the captain in
swimming. He was also in a couple of school plays, and became president of the student
body. Reagen graduated with a degree in economics and sociology. After collage Reagen
work as a sport announcer in Des Moines Iowa. When traveling to California to report on
the spring training for the Chicago Cubs, Regain got a contract from WB. As an actor
Regain played many roles including, a radio announcer, a collage football player, a
cowboy and many more. In total, Regain came out in bout 50 films. Regain first got
married in 1940 to actress Jane Wyman, They had one kid and adopted another. Their
marriage only lasted eight years. Reign's second marriage was in 1951, to Nancy Davis.
They had two children. Reign's rise to presidency begun in 1948 when he campaign with
Harry Truman. When Regain became more famous in the political world was in 1964 when he
gave a speech targeting high taxes, crime rate, wasteful government spending and welfare
cost. Regain Became Governor of California in 1966 when he defeated Edmund Brown a
Democratic. As Governor Regain began to stop hiring state employees, and slowed the
government spending money. Instead of lowering taxes, Regain gave three tax raises, one
which was the higest in history. In 1970, Regain got reelected as Governor, and served
until 1975. Reign's campaign for president took off in 1976, but lost to President
Carter. Regain had a comeback and won the next presidential election to Jimmy Carter. He
won a second term in 1984 to Walter Mondale. Regain first test as president was to live
up to his promises, so his first domestic issue was to put a stop to inflation, and keep
businesses moving again. His first step to achieve this goal was to have a tax cut, and
reduce welfare and unemployment programs. None of that worked, and the country went
trough a recession. Congress had to once aging raise taxes. This is when he began to get
criticized by many people. Blacks criticized him because he cut all the social security
programs, and they taught he was being racist, the rich people criticized him for raising
taxes, woman criticized because they said there wasn't enough woman in government jobs,
and environmental people criticized him because they said he wasn't doing much about
saving the wildlife. In Reign's first administration he didn't really do much in foreign
affairs. All Regain did was to build up the military. He supplied Westerner Europe with
nuclear weapons. He also gave arms to the government of El Salvador and to rebels in
Nicaragua. Regain also attempted to stop the fighting in Lebanon. Reign's second
administration tried to deal with the high deficit the United States had. It was 200
billion dollars, after lowering tax for individuals and raising taxes for corporations,
the deficit was down to 148 billion by the end of 1987. As for foreign affairs, Regain
meet with the leader of Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, they both signed an agreement to
end all ground launched nuclear missiles with ranges of 310-3420 miles. They also
discussed several education, scientific, and cultural changes. He got involved in issues
to stop terrorism, but it wasn't anything big. They once again supplied Nicaragua with
weapons, and helped out Iran too. Their trading ended when Iranians shot an US warship
and killed 37 Americans. In 1988, the United States shot a plane down caring 290 innocent
Iranian people. In my opinion, Regain didn't do much about domestic or foreign affairs.
All he did was raise and lower taxes, and as for foreign affairs he just got involved in
different conflicts.