Richard Nixon

and with Nixon serving as the Vice President he was obviously the better candidate. Not to mention, JFK was a young senator of Catholic faith from Massachusetts who lack the experience of foreign policy. Of course, what many thought JFK lack changed the night of the first presidential debate. Once the debate ended many radio listeners felt Nixion had won but those who watched on television, 74 million viewers, agreed that Kennedy won the debate (Webley, 2010). The television captured Nixon as a pale

on October 21, 1967 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. They gathered there to share how dissatisfied they were about the war. Since the United States support during the war began to decline in time this was putting pressure on President Richard Nixon to end the war. In 1968 Americans and Vietnamese fightings were being recorded which was known as the Tet Offensive. These fightings were not only just being recorded they were being put on television. Putting this on television was exposing it

of the issues that affected our country in the first half of the 1970’s carried over from the decade before. One of the first notable events was the Kent State massacre. The year was 1970 and President Richard Nixon stated in a television speech that the United States had invaded Cambodia. Nixon told the American people the invasion was a defensive response to the aggression of the North Vietnamese in Cambodia. He stated that this action would speed up the

Topic/Title: The Importance of Freedom of Speech General Purpose: I want to inform my audience Specific Purpose: I want my audience to understand the importance of freedom of speech. Thesis: Freedom of speech is important because it allows new ideas to surface, encourages the development in social relationships to prosper, and it permits for the truth to prevail. Introduction A. Attention getter There is a famous written saying that adheres to the attitude of every important figure throughout

Many of the democrats within the legislative branch turned against Johnson’s war. Scholar’s conflict on the reason why Johnson’s own party turned against him, some scholars attribute it to the growing number of antiwar constituents, while other scholars such as E.M. Schreiber, Burstein and Freudenburg cite the numerous deaths of American soldiers in combat. One democrat by the name of Eugene McCarthy labeled the entire Vietnam War as an “error” and describes the Johnson administration as “misguided

of the civil rights movement. In the 1960s the decade involved protest, the war in Vietnam, the fight for civil rights, and JFK. Then came the 1970s and it was known as the time of peace and love, equality for all, the ongoing war in Vietnam, and Nixon. Each decade after one another affected the next with foreign policy, domestic policy, politics, political leadership, the economy, and the social terms of each decade. In 1945-1953, Harry Truman was in office and his foreign policy philosophy was

Although Wallace changed his platform to get elected, “ ‘Richard Flowers, former Alabama state attorney general, thought Wallace did it all to get elected and once in office would do the right thing.’ ” (Riechers, 2003) In 1963 Wallace proved that he would stand behind his campaign from 1962. On June 11, 1963

National Film Registry for its culturally significant illustration of two different personalized stories between an autistic man and a hippie woman, historically significant of the Vietnam War in the 60’s and politics, like our past President Richard Nixon controversial watergate scandal, and its aesthetically significant use of plot lines that evokes us to express many unexpected emotions that you never know whether you are going to smile, cry, or frown. Tom Hanks who is best known for comedy and

for the U.S. Air force, testified, in a congressional hearing about military spending about the exceedingly high cost in a particular transport plane development. President Lyndon Johnson was on his way out and President Richard Nixon would soon be sworn in. After Richard Nixon became president he took the normal steps of a new president entering the presidency he downsized and reconstructed many government agencies including the department of the Air Force. During Nixon’s downsizing Fitzgerald

Before the invention of radio, television, and the internet, people used to communicate by talking to each other. As much as it seems to be a foreign concept to us today, news and general information was only spread by neighbors talking to their neighbors, coworkers to coworkers, and friends to friends. There was no texting or tweeting that instantly took a message from one friend in California to another in Australia. There was no breaking news flashing across a 32-inch television screen or over