I am not a crook Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th president of the United States, was born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians. Even with Watergate, and all of Nixon's lies and mistakes, many historians call his presidency a success. He used the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties to launch his career, but as president he eased tension with the Soviet Union and opened relations …
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…upon as an elder statesman. He wrote five books on US foreign policy: The Real War (1980), Real Peace (1983), No More Vietnams (1985), Victory Without War (1988), and Seize the Moment (1992). Richard Milhous Nixon died of severe stroke April 22, 1994, at age 81. He hasn't been hailed as the greatest, nor has he been hailed as the worst, but one thing is for sure; he opened up the U.S. to the world when no other president could. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**