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Richard M. Nixon, 37th president of the United States, was one of the most controversial
politicians. He used the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties to catapult his
career, but as president he eased tension with the Soviet Union and opened relations with
Red China. Nixon's administration occurred during the domestic upheavals brought on by
the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. But, to his demise, the Watergate scandal
during his second term eventually forced him to resign to avoid impeachment.

Early Life

Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California to
the proud parents of Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. Nixon, the
second of five sons, came from a southern-Quaker family, where hard work and integrity
were deeply-rooted and heavily emphasized. A terrific student, young Richard attended
public schools in Whittier, California, where he grew up, and was later invited by Harvard
and Yale to apply......

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