Editing Richard Nixon

|Image = Richard Nixon.jpg

|fullname = Richard Milhous Nixon

|occupation = President of the United States (1969 - 1974)<br>Vice President of the United States (1953 - 1961)<br>U.S. Senator from California (1950 - 1953)

|goals = Stay in office as President by any means necessary (failed)<br>Cover up Watergate (failed)<br>End the [[Vietnam War]] (failed, but partially succeeded in ending the draft)

|motive = Keep his position<br>Cover up his administration's crimes against Democratic Party

}}

{{Quote|I made my mistakes. But in all of my years of public life, I have never profited - never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say, that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.|One of Nixon's most famous quotes}}

==Biography==

Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California. He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife Pat moved to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. He served on active duty in the Navy Reserve during [[World War II]].  

He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist which elevated him to national prominence. In 1950, he was elected to the Senate. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 election, subsequently serving for eight years as the vice president. He unsuccessfully ran for president in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy. Nixon then lost a race for governor of California to Pat Brown in 1962. In 1968, he ran for the presidency again and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey and [[George Wallace]] in a close election.

In 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote his memoirs and nine other books and undertook many foreign trips, rehabilitating his image into that of an elder statesman and leading expert on foreign affairs. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at age 81. Surveys of historians and political scientists have ranked Nixon as a below-average president. However, evaluations of him have proven complex, with successes as president contrasted against the circumstances of his departure from office.

As the investigation continued, it was revealed that the scandal was primarily to cover-up his administration's illegal activities as well as to sabotage the Democratic Party, just so his opposition would be weakened.

==Other villainy==

*He financed the 1973 Chilean coup d'état which allowed Augusto Pinochet to seize power in Chile.

*Nixon was an avowed [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]] who strongly disliked Jews, and was a believer in the conspiracy theory that Jews were planning to take over the government.

*He launched the War on Drugs, which has actually caused more problems than it has solved.

*He supported [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]] in their invasion of Laos.

*While he withdrew some American troops from Vietnam, he needlessly extended the [[Vietnam War]] instead of ending it by talking the president of South Vietnam out of negotiating with North Vietnam, as he needed the war to continue so that he could run for president; therefore, breaking his promise to end the war.

*Nominated two segregationists to the Supreme Court. Both men were so unashamedly racist that both Democrats and Republicans refused to vote on them.

*He also showed traits of [[misogyny]] and stated that he didn't think women should work in government because they were too "erratic and emotional".

*He committed [[war crimes]] during the Vietnam War by ordering Henry Kissinger to carry out an illegal bombing campaign against Cambodia and Laos in order to eliminate North Vietnamese leadership (which would ultimately lead to the [[Kent State shootings]], and Cambodia becoming a failed state, let alone the deaths of over 100,000 innocent Cambodian citizens).

**He also supplied the [[Yahya Khan]]-lead government with weapons during the genocide against the wishes of Congress, and said that he didn't care about the genocide because [[Islamophobia|"They're just a bunch of brown goddamn Muslims."]]

*Nixon had links with several [[organized crime]] gangs, accepting millions of dollars in campaign donations to release [[Mafia]]-affiliated union leader [[Jimmy Hoffa]] from prison. Mob boss [[Mickey Cohen]] is also believed to have helped Nixon to launch his political career in 1946.

== Trivia ==

* He is the only president in American History to resign.

* He is the second of two presidents to appear on the National Presidential Ticket five times, along with [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt].

*He was the vice president of [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower]

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