Richard Nixon: Difference between revisions

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**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.

*Under his administration, the Justice Department initiated a crackdown on criticism of the government. Attorney General [[John N. Mitchell]] oversaw the prosecution of numerous anti-government protestors, most infamously the Chicago Seven. He also allowed the FBI's [[COINTELPRO]] program to continue and expanded [[Operation CHAOS]], an illegal surveillance program targeting anti-government activists.

==Post-presidency==

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* He is the second of only two presidents to ever come close to impeachment without being impeached, the only other president being [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler John Tyler] in 1842.

* 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].

*~~After his resignation, his second vice president~~ Gerald ~~ford became the 38th us president which made~~ Ford ~~to be~~ the ~~only~~ unelected President.

*His Vice President Gerald Ford was the first unelected Vice President of the United States, having been appointed after the resignation of [[Spiro Agnew]].

**However after ~~his vice President~~ [[Spiro Agnew]]~~'s resignation, Gerald Ford became his vice president making also Ford to be the only unelected vice president~~.

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

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 **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.
+*Under his administration, the Justice Department initiated a crackdown on criticism of the government. Attorney General [[John N. Mitchell]] oversaw the prosecution of numerous anti-government protestors, most infamously the Chicago Seven. He also allowed the FBI's [[COINTELPRO]] program to continue and expanded [[Operation CHAOS]], an illegal surveillance program targeting anti-government activists.
 ==Post-presidency==
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 * He is the second of only two presidents to ever come close to impeachment without being impeached, the only other president being [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler John Tyler] in 1842.
 * 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].
-*After his resignation, his second vice president Gerald ford became the 38th us president which made Ford to be the only unelected President.
+*His Vice President Gerald Ford was the first unelected Vice President of the United States, having been appointed after the resignation of [[Spiro Agnew]].
-**However after his vice President [[Spiro Agnew]]'s resignation, Gerald Ford became his vice president making also Ford to be the only unelected vice president.
 *He was the vice president of [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower]