Richard Milhous Nixon, While In Presidency Had A Beneficial Effect On The United

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Term Paper Title	Richard Milhous Nixon, While In Presidency Had A Beneficial Effect On The United
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Richard Milhous Nixon, while in presidency had a beneficial effect on the United States
economy.
     Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January ninth, 1913, in the cozy town of Yorba
Linda, California.  Richard was the second of five kids.  His father, Francis worked at a
gasoline station and country store.  His mother Hannah raised him with a strong Quaker
backround.  Richard attended the local public school which led him to Whittier College, a
diminutive Quaker institution.  After graduating from Whittier in 1934, Richard recieved a
scholarship to the presdigese Duke University Law School.  Three years later Richard
graduated from Duke Law third in his class.  He was then elected president of the Duke Bar
Association.
     It was time for Nixon to make a career choice.  He thought about the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, which is ironic knowing what would happen to him in years to come.  Instead
he choose to go back to Whittier and work at a law firm in town.  He acquired a considerable
amount of expirience as a small town prosecuter.  At a local play Nixon met Thelma Patricia
Ryan, a school teacher.  Years later they on June 21, 1940 in California.
     Nixon had an up and coming political career in front of him.  He took the Republican
bid and ran for the 12th congressional district and defeated incumbent Jerry Voorhis a
nationally known New Deal Democrat.  Nixon then earned a seat on the House Committee
on Education and Labor.  He worked avidly forming the Labor-Management Relations Act of
1947, which is currently known as the Taft-Hartley Act.  Nixon was elected to Senate after
he defeated Helen Gahagan Douglas a popular liberal Democrat.  This win began his national
recognition.  He worked the public from 1951 to 1952 with        about twelve speeches a
month at different Republican meetings.  In1968 Richard Milhous Nixon became the President
of the United States of America.  He won a close race agaisnt the Democrat Humphrey,
31,770,237 votes to 31,270,533.
     President Nixon came in to office in the middle of a war and hard economic times.
President Nixon "broke all of the rules" when he revised the rates at which currencies were
exchanged.  He closed the gold window by freezing wages and prices which acted as a
domestic stimulus.  "The President's program submeasures are a triumph of common sense
and modern economics and contain the promise of extricating the U.S. economy from its
current impasse." (Eckstein, Otto -1972)  The war was over and the eco...

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