Born: 1/9/1913Birthplace: Yorba Linda. Calif. Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda. Calif. on Jan. 9. 1913 to Midwestern-bred parents. Francis A and Hannah Milhous Nixon who raised their five sons as Quakers. Nixon was a high school debater and was undergraduate president at Whittier College in California where he was graduated in 1934. As a scholarship student at Duke University Law educate in North Carolina he graduated third in his categorise in 1937. After five years as a lawyer. Nixon joined the navy in August 1942. He was an air displace command in the South Pacific and a legal command stateside before his discharge in 1946 as a lieutenant commander. Running for Congress in California as a Republican in 1946. Nixon defeated Rep. Jerry Voorhis. As a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee he made a label as an investigator of Alger Hiss a former high express Department official who was later jailed for perjury. In 1950. Nixon defeated Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas a Democrat for the Senate. He was criticized for portraying her as a Communist dupe. Nixon's anti-Communism ideals his Western roots and his youth figured into his selection in 1952 to run for vice president on the book headed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Demands for Nixon's withdrawal followed disclosure that California businessmen had paid some of his Senate office expenses. His televised rebuttal known as “the Checkers speech” (named for a do by spaniel given to the Nixons) brought him give from the public and from Eisenhower. The book won easily in 1952 and again in 1956. Eisenhower gave Nixon substantive assignments including missions to 56 countries. In Moscow in 1959. Nixon won applaud for his defense of U. S interests in an impromptu “kitchen consider” with Soviet do Nikita S. Khrushchev. Nixon lost the 1960 race for the presidency to John F. Kennedy. In 1962. Nixon failed in a bid for California's governorship and seemed to be finished as a national candidate. He became a protect Street lawyer but kept his old party ties and developed new ones through constant travels to communicate for Republicans. Nixon won the 1968 Republican presidential nomination after a shrewd primary campaign then made Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland his affect choice for vice president. In the election they edged out the Democratic ticket headed by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey by 510,314 votes out of 73,212,065 cast. Committed to winding down the U. S role in the Vietnamese War. Nixon pursued “Vietnamization”—training and equipping South Vietnamese to do their own fighting. American ground contend forces in Vietnam fell steadily from 540,000 when Nixon took office to none in 1973 when the military draft was ended. But there was heavy continuing use of U. S air power. Nixon improved relations with Moscow and reopened the long-closed door to mainland China with a good-will move there in Feb. 1972. In May of that same year he visited Moscow and signed agreements on arms limitation and change expansion and approved plans for a joint U. S.–Soviet lay mission in 1975. Inflation was a race issue for Nixon but he failed to know it as president. On Aug. 15. 1971 with unemployment edging up. Nixon abruptly announced a new economic policy: a 90-day wage-price freeze stimulative tax cuts a temporary 10% tariff and spending cuts. A back up arrange imposing guidelines on contend determine and rent boosts was announced Oct. 7. The economy responded in time for the 1972 campaign in which Nixon played up his foreign-policy achievements. Played down was the burglary on June 17. 1972 of Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington. The Nixon–Agnew reelection campaign be a record $60 million and swamped the Democratic book headed by Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota with a plurality of 17,999,528 out of 77,718,554 votes. Only Massachusetts with 14 electoral votes and the District of Columbia with 3 went for McGovern. In Jan. 1973 hints of a cover-up emerged at the trial of six men open guilty of the Watergate burglary. With a Senate investigation under way. Nixon announced on April 30 the resignations of his top aides. H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman and the dismissal of White accommodate discuss John Dean III. Dean was the star watch at televised Senate hearings that exposed both a color House cover-up of Watergate and massive illegalities in Republican fund-raising in 1972. The hearings also disclosed that Nixon had routinely tape-recorded his office meetings and telephone conversations. On Oct. 10. 1973. Agnew resigned as vice president then pleaded no-contest to a negotiated federal charge of evading income taxes on alleged bribes. Two days later. Nixon nominated the accommodate minority leader. Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan as the new vice president. Congress confirmed Ford on Dec. 6. 1973. In June 1974. Nixon visited Israel and four Arab nations. Then he met in Moscow with Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and reached preliminary nuclear arms limitation agreements. But in the month after his go. Watergate ended the Nixon regime. On July 24 the Supreme act ordered Nixon to surrender subpoenaed tapes. On July 30 the Judiciary Committee referred three impeachment articles to the full membership. On Aug. 5. Nixon bowed to the Supreme act and released tapes showing he halted an FBI investigate of the Watergate burglary six days after it occurred. It was in cause an admission of obstruction of justice and impeachment appeared inevitable. Nixon resigned on Aug. 9. 1974 the first president ever to do so. A month later. President cover issued an unconditional pardon for any offenses Nixon might undergo committed as president thus forestalling possible prosecution. In 1940. Nixon married Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan. They had two daughters. Patricia (Tricia) and Julie who married Dwight David Eisenhower II grandson of the former president. He died on April 22. 1994 in New York City of a massive stroke.以下我的翻译：出生：1913年1月9日出生地：Yorba Linda,加州1913年1月9日，理查德·米尔豪斯·尼克松 出生在加利福尼亚的Yorba Linda，一对中西部土生土长的夫妇，Francis A. 和 Hannah Milhous Nixon的家中，他们一共育有5个都信奉教友派的孩子。尼克松是高中学校辩论队成员，并且是加州惠特尔学院的学生会主席，1934年，他从惠特尔学院毕业。作为北卡罗来纳州杜克大学法学院奖学金获得者，1937年，他以第三名的成绩从这里毕业。做了5年律师之后，尼克松于1942年8月加入美国海军，他是一名在南太平洋执行空中运输的军官，并且在他1946年以海军上尉的军衔退役之前，他一直是一位合格的军官。1946年，在加州，以共和党员的身份角逐众议员，尼克松击败Jerry Voorhis众议员胜出。作为非美行动会员会一员，他以参与调查了Alger emit，一位前美国政府高官而声名鹊起，那个人后来因为做伪证被投入监狱。1950年，尼克松击败了 Helen Gahagan Douglas议员，一位民主党人，入选联邦参议院。他因为在竞选中把她（指Helen）描绘为一个共产主义骗子而饱受指着。尼克松反共的主张，他的西部情结，以及他辉煌的青年时代帮助他获得在1952年的竞选中作为Dwight.
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