The feeling after traveling Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum At 24, May, I travelled to Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. This museum is located in Yorba Linda, California, and it is a member of the National Archives and Records Administration’s system of Presidential Libraries. The Nixon Library consists of something for all ages, from the home where President Nixon was born to a special exhibit on our missions to the Moon. According to the travel guide, I know that the mission of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation is to honor the leadership of Richard Nixon and to perpetuate his legacy. I really learn many useful things, and I think I have understood more about him. It is a helpful traveling to me to improve my knowledge and thinking about politics in U.S and the 1President Nixon. Richard …show more content…
In my opinion, the most contributory thing was diplomatic policy. When he was elected to be a president, the setup of the world was chaos, and the relations between the U.S and some countries were strained. At the same time, China has not established diplomatic relations with many countries as a socialist country. Firstly, Nixon dispatched Henry Alfred Kissinger to visit to China secretly, and they talked about relationship between China and the U.S. Then, they made a declaration that President Nixon would visit to China soon later. On February 21, 1972, President Nixon and his wife arrived in China, and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai shook hands with Nixon. Until that shaking, China was not insulated with the U.S any more, and China and the U.S began to have a new, good relationship. During President Nixon visit, the most famous event was they using table tennis to try to improve their contact. As the result, they published the Shanghai Communiqué to normalized relations between these two
Many people who gain power can be lead to corruption, like the leaders, Adolf Hitler, and Napoleon Dynamite. Although Richard Nixon never tried to rule the world, he still let his country down. Nixon wasn't always thought as a traitor, he had a great personal life, During and after presidency. Richard Nixon was a good man, but he does not deserve a holiday, he let his country down and lost a lot respect.
So, who exactly was the Richard Nixon? In a very broad sense, he was the 37th president of the United States. Before his tenure as the 37th president, according to Conrad Black, “Richard Nixon, under his father’s influence, was already interested in politics, and already a Republican,” by 1920 (11). Likewise, Nixon’s early interest in politics that would lead to his election as a California congressman, in 1946, and sequentially, a state Senator, in 1950. Like many other US presidents, Richard Nixon had a rich history in politics before winning the presidency. But unlike other presidents, Nixon already had controversy surrounding him before he ever reached the oval office. In 1952, Nixon was amidst rumors of questionable funding,
Born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, Richard Milhouse Nixon was raised in a Quaker home with his four brothers, mother and father. His family led a docile life by abstaining from all dancing, swearing, drinking and other common Quaker practices (Barron 12). Financially, the family struggled and he could not afford to attend Harvard University even with a full-ride scholarship. Instead, Nixon enrolled at Whittier College, a popular Quaker college close to home (Barron 39). Nixon began dominating all of his academics and it was at Whittier where he began to shape his future political career.
Former President Richard Nixon is most well-known for his role in the Watergate crisis in the early 1970’s. The Watergate crisis started in June of 1972, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters was broke into by members of Nixon’s re-election committee. The press took this breaking news and began to dig deeper into what the Whitehouse (President Nixon) was hiding. Over the next two years heavy investigations into the Watergate incident revealed that President Nixon did, in fact, ordered a cover-up to keep the incident under control. Fearing impeachment, President Nixon resigned his presidency in August 1974,
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
The Nixon Library is more than just a library alongside the deceased presidents’ name on the wall. The library seemed more like a museum that has sheltered audio and visual displays narrating Richard Nixon’s life throughout the years. The museum is located in the core of the residential city of Yorba Linda, California. The actual location of the library was undisputed when it was being created. It is located on the grounds of Nixon’s first home. The library opened its doors in 1990 as a privately supported institution to educate Californians about the president that emerged from the local suburban town, and since 2007 it has become a federal facility.
In his first couple of months in the oval office, Richard Nixon positively impacted the nation. As did most previous presidents do, Nixon had put himself right into action making sure he could build up and maintain and good reputation in office. But soon after completing his first term, disaster struck just as reelection was coming up. Nixon had destroyed his reputation, and by doing so showed the people how easy it was to be successful at a point and then lose it all due to one event, Watergate. Paul H. Elovitz, who teaches at Farleigh Dickinson University and is a founding faculty member of Ramapo College of New Jersey, begins to break down Nixon’s scenario. Elovitz comments, “Among his successes were the recognition of China, ending
Later in his life, he met with a British commentator named David Frost in order to make his public image better. Nixon spoke with both pride and remorse at this interview and he never admitted to doing anything wrong. He wrote a lot of books including a memoir called RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, and a bunch of books about international affairs and American foreign policy. These books caused Nixon to get a role as an elder foreign policy authority. (1) President Nixon died on April 22, 1994, when he was 81, as a result of a stroke
In 1948 through 1950, Nixon received a role in the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)(“Richard Nixon Biography”,2016). In 1952, he became the vice president of the United States. Before the election, he was accused of having a “slush fund”(“Richard Nixon Biography”,2016). He denied anything to do with through a speech on September 23, 1952.(“Richard Nixon Biography”,2016) He named the speech “Checkers speech” after his daughter’s pet Checkers(“Richard Nixon Biography”,2016).
The museum displays videos and photographs spanning the years 1934 to 1963 in thematic groupings to reflect John F. Kennedy, his family, his friends and Cape Cod where he purchased his "Summer White House.“
Nixon's presidency had a tremendous impact on America's foreign and domestic policy. There were several different ways concepts which demonstrate the influence that Nixon's presidency had on American foreign and domestic policy. Nixon had a plethora of successful things he accomplished during his term that benefited America's foreign and domestic policy, but he also made decisions that made the American people doubt him. The most substantial changes or events that occurred during Nixon's presidency have to do with detente, realpolitik, watergate, and the Saturday night massacre.
Republican, Richard Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States serving from 1969 to 1974. He saw many accomplishments while in office: he ended American Fighting in the Vietnam, he ended the draft, passed anticrime laws, started a broad international environmental program, appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court, reduced tensions with China, signed a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons, and he saw the first man land on the moon. Ultimately though the Watergate Scandal led Nixon to resign from office and showed how inside the White House walls, everything is not always politically correct. In All the President’s Men, the amazing reporting effort by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein show how
Richard Nixon's presidency is one of the most examined, analyzed and discussed, yet least understood, of all the American administrations in history. While many factors still remain to be discovered, and many mysteries are left to be resolved, we need to do the best that we can to make sense of this secretive president of our past and his era. He is the one American figure about whom very few people don't have strong feelings for. Nixon is loved and hated, honored and mocked . The term 'Watergate', labeled by Congress in 1974, stands for not only the burglary, but also for the numerous instances of officially sanctioned criminal activity and abuses of power as well as the obstruction of justice that preceded the actual break-in.
Dear, Ronald Reagan we would like you to know that we are willing to open up a museum in your name. Over the last 8 years you have done a lot of great for the United States of America. We would like to honor you in opening up museum that would include your life story from when you were a little child to your acting career, governorship, and finally your presidency. We would just like to know if your on board with us here is what we think would be great in the museum. We would love it if you were to approve.
Named in memory of Robert E. Wilson, the gallery is dedicated to educating, enriching and engaging students, and the general public through art exhibitions and at the same time promoting contemporary and visual arts within the community. The gallery is home to a permanent collection of prints by Salvador Dali, and paintings by many contemporary American and European artists. The gallery serves as an academic resource of Huntington University, and also features exhibitions by student, faculty, and professional artists on a regular basis. The gallery is open to public on weekdays, and visitors are requested to take an appointment before visiting.