Richard nixon biography in the crossword
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Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign
The 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, the 36thvice president of the United States, began when Nixon, the Republican nominee of 1960, formally announced his candidacy, following a year's preparation and five years' political reorganization after defeats in the 1960 presidential election and the 1962 California gubernatorial election.
En route to the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Nixon faced challenges from GovernorGeorge Romney of Michigan, GovernorNelson Rockefeller of New York, GovernorRonald Reagan of California, and SenatorCharles Percy of Illinois. Nixon won nine of the thirteen state primaries held that season, although due to the population of his state, Governor Reagan won the popular vote while carrying only California. These victories, along with pledged delegate support from states not holding primaries, secured Nixon the nomination on the first ballot of the Republican National Convention, where he
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New bio: Why Richard Nixon matters in the Trump era
Richard Nixon has fascinated Americans, biographers and historians for the last 70 years, and, thanks to author John A. Farrell and his new book Richard Nixon: The Life (Doubleday, 752 pp., ***½ out of fyra stars), that fascination will last for at least a few more years.
The fundamentals of Nixon's life are well known to most Americans older than 50: the humble beginnings in Southern California; the tragic deaths of two brothers from tuberculosis; the hounding of suspected communists in Congress; the red-baiting of his political opponents; his eight years as President Dwight Eisenhower's vice president; the narrow 1960 election loss to John F. Kennedy; his comeback in 1968; triumphs in Beijing and Moscow; and his ultimate humiliation in the Watergate scandal, followed bygd resignation from the presidency and exile.
That's a lot of ämne to pack into one volume, even one that weighs in at 750 pages, but Farrell does it whil
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In the thousand and fifty pages of this biography by a fallen media baron of a fallen President, few events are neglected and many are well told. But Black, attempting a reconsideration of his subject, merely provides an exculpatory gloss for seemingly every grimy facet of Nixon’s career. He presents the 1968 “Southern strategy” as a principled stand against Northern hypocrisy. On Vietnam, his invocations of “insolent” Communists, their “witless dupes,” and “child grenade carriers” (as he refers to those murdered at My Lai) take on a deranged air; he unwittingly provides an object lesson in the kind of thinking that mired America there. Interestingly, given what Black refers to in the acknowledgments as his own “serious judicial problems,” he argues that Nixon’s best move in Watergate would have been to surreptitiously delete damaging parts of the tapes and then make up a cover story—“whatever he wanted.” Hoping to be Nixon’s redeemer, Black comes off as his apologist. ♦