Richard Milhous Nixon graduated second in his class, with honors in History, and got a full scholarship from Whittier College. Not only that, but he was an active participant within his debate and drama committees in his school years (Greene 411). But how can someone as sharp and talented as him go so wrong? From the many alliances he made in order to gain political power, to sacrificing the lives of others internationally to gain more for himself, Nixon was one of the worst presidents in American history, having almost been impeached. He had made countless unforgivable errors time and time again, which ultimately lead to his career’s demise. Throughout the course of his six-and-a-half years of presidency, Nixon proved to be one of the worst
Richard Nixon was the United States 37th President during 1969 to 1974 where he ultimately resigned from office due to the Watergate Scandal. During his presidency, June of 1972, five males broke into the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex and attempted to steal top secret files about the running Democratic parties for the upcoming election. The fourth attempt to break-in (one previous break-in succeeding but not accomplishing the goal) had been planned by Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy at the hand of the Committee to Reelect the President, Nixon's campaign committee. Mitchell was the key approver for the break-in to take place. They were unsuccessful due to the security guard working that night discovering many of the
On another note, another event from Nixon’s presidency was his part in ending the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. There was a lot of secrecy going on during Nixon’s time in office and
When Nixon won his second term burglars broke into the Democratic Campaign Headquarters in Washington’s Watergate Complex. Tracks were found leading to government officials. The Nixon administration denied having the opponent building be broken into, but it was soon found that he did. Nixon was recording conversations in the Oval Office. Nixon was told to give up the tapes but he did not. He thought that he was the president and he was above the constitution. American democracy was made to not have a king, but Nixon thought he was the king, he thought he was above the law. The decision was taken to court and it was ruled 8-0 against Nixon and he had to give up the tapes.
Walter Nixon was impeached in 1990. He has no relation to the former president Nixon, but was still an official who was caught doing things they were not supposed to. While he was a U.S. federal judge he was caught committing perjury. The reason for him committing this was for one of his business partners’ son’s had been caught with drugs and was facing charges for it. This trial was going to take case in a state court, but he used his power to talk to a prosecutor, who was a friend of his, and they dropped the case. This wasn’t the perjury he had committed though, the perjury happened when he was talking to the FBI and DOJ and denied any involvement with what he had done. After being sentenced to 5 years in prison, he refused to resign and
Relying heavily on manipulation and anecdotal evidence rather than solid arguments or concrete proof to counter the allegations against him could be seen as a flaw in reasoning. Furthermore, Nixon's strategy of diverting attention from the accusations by attacking his adversaries could be viewed as an ad hominem argument. Despite these flaws, Nixon's adept use of rhetoric and ability to connect with his audience ultimately helped him save his career and secure his spot on the
There was a limited success in his domestic policies in the country because there are controversies of different levels in the country. The paper explains my opinion of the presidency of Richard Nixon. According to my understanding, I have a feeling that Richard Nixon is the worst ever president of the U.S because of the failure of his domestic policies.
It is amazing to know how a person’s reputation is important! It is interesting to know how many important people can easily lose their reputation. Senator Richard Nixon did something unique after being accused of stealing money from a campaign fund. This accusation was heard everywhere and General Dwight Eisenhower was about to make a decision in dropping Nixon from his choice for Vice President. Richard Nixon then delivered a thirty minute speech instead of trying to clear his name in going to interviewers and journalists; the speech Richard Nixon gave, saved his career and it also took him beyond congress. It is good to hear that his speech worked and making his speech the top sixth speeches of the 20th century. Probably Richard Nixon and his family went through hard and difficult times throughout the accusation but Richard Nixon and his family was very strong to overcome it.
In the election of 1972, Nixon won by over sixty percent of the votes and won all states except Massachusetts against George McGovern (“The History Place…”). This is one of the biggest landslides in U.S. Presidential election history. In January 1973, Richard Nixon’s approval rating was sixty-seven percent, which is relatively high compared to current president Barack Obama’s forty-seven percent and many other Presidents before him (“The History Place…”). Therefore, he had a great reputation and was in the highest possible position, the leader of the free world, just like Father Flynn was in his parish. Richard Nixon also had a very positive relationship with members of the White House. For example, members of the White House were caught breaking in and violating the law to get President Nixon re-elected (“The History Place…”). Abuse of power comes from a high reputation that is unquestioned.
The Watergate Scandal was the downfall of Richard Nixon. It made Americans put less trust in the government and built trust in the media. It all takes place at the Watergate Hotel. He led an extremely corrupt administration to get him re elected. He also was the first President to resign. The unethical organization that was formed was called the CRP (later creep). They helped Nixon get re elected in 1972. They used illegal tactics to get him re elected. They paid lawyers for the burglars who broke into the Watergate Hotel. These people were known as the Plumbers. That was directed by John Ehrlichman. They were the White House investigation unit. They prevented information leak and burglarize any of Nixon reveals. Watergate seven was Richard Nixon closest comrades. They were in charge of the Creep and the plumbers that carried out many illegal activities. Christ the Transformer of Business culture is a good trait to obtain. “These people are intimately involved with those in the business, but their distinctive Christian standards are not lost” (Ruddell, 2004, p. 40). The people that were involved in the Watergate scandal should have had this trait.
Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and William had some things in common. One of those things was that they were all presidents, and the other thing is they all faced impeachment. They all had events leading up to a Congressional vote, the end result of each situation, and they either agreed or disagreed about reasons for their impeachment.
Scandal! I am not a crook, Watergate, impeachment, resignation, one final “two handed V”; which president comes to mind? President Richard M. Nixon was a visionary leader; but an unethical leader. This paper will examine two visionary leadership traits of President Nixon, two unethical leadership skills of Nixon and then look to my own career for two personal examples of visionary and two unethical leadership skills I portrayed. Nixon’s visionary leadership was on display when it came to dealing with Communist countries and recession on the home front. By using the full range leadership (FRL) process of contingent reward, Nixon focused relations with China to establish common political grounds. Using cognitive adaptability, Nixon was able to reign in the 1970’s recession. He applied FRL tactics to push his agenda towards politics and economic policy. But, Nixon’s unethical leadership trait, drive for success, led to the Watergate Scandal. Also, he failed to use the reasoning element of implication when he discharged the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate investigation. After discussing President Nixon’s visionary but unethical leadership, I’ll apply these same principles to myself by showing examples of how I used contingent reward and cognitive adaptability techniques in my Air Force career. Finally, I’ll discuss how drive for success
They maintain their productivity and civic spirit in a world changing due to technology and automation. Nixon prattles about American productivity and work ethic because the US was going through an economic recession. Nixon addresses the various concerns Americans have over the declining economy. He acknowledges the changes occurring to the labor force and economy.
Richard Nixon, though created a large credibility gap within the US, he accomplished a lot for the country. He served five years in the presidential office as a republican (1969-1974), and he was the only president to resign from office in history. Although through his presidency he had accomplished many things, such as creating revenue sharing, ending the draft, and creating anticrime laws, he still had a rough time rebuilding his reputation after many assumptions of corruption in his office. Though he never admittedly pledged guilty to his crimes of taking government funds for his own personal gain, there was proof that he was. After the Watergate scandal, the American people set their mind to believe what the proof led to, so Nixon’s
President Richard Nixon's Watergate Scandal is one of the most controversial court cases to this date. He was the first president to ever resign from office and caused the American trust in the government to suffer. Did Richard Nixon really have something to hide? Did the Supreme court make the right decision? Was the case handled in the most sufficient way? Whether one agrees with the outcome of Nixon vs. United States or not, this case left a mark on American history and shouldn't lessen trust in the American Government. The case was treated just as equally as any other case and went through the long Judicial practice as stated in the Constitution.
There was once a Television show name “Berretta” and the show theme song said do not do crime if you cannot do the time. That is a true saying, one that should be on every criminal mind why they are committing a crime. Sentencing a criminal for crimes for which they have been convicted of is their due punishment according to the severity of the crime committed. The Courts have for centuries punished criminals according to the belief of the society in which the crime was committed.