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June 17.1972-Nixon and Watergate

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(, Yam Tze years May seventh day), June 17, 1972, Nixon and Watergate.

Richard Nixon, is generally acknowledged as a foreign policy leader, but also the first president to resign in the history of the United States, and the president was forced to resign after the loss of trust.
Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. [L $ djτ.cōm]
Nixon grew up in the poverty of his family was in Yorba Linda. A child he had a few survived 3 years old he fell from the carriage, and almost died due to excessive bleeding; 4 years old, he nearly died of pneumonia. Academic diligence, seriously, and agility is famous. In 1930, he graduated first in his class from Whittier College, ranked 2 Youyi graduated from Whittier College in 1934 and 1937, he graduated from the Law School in the results of the first three. In November of the same year, he qualified as a solicitor in California. In 1946, Nixon defeated the 5th consecutive Members Democrat Jerry Wohlers, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, began his political career. November 5, 1968, Nixon defeated Humphrey in the Democratic Party and the American Independent Party, Wallace, [history today www.TodayOnHistory.com] the elected as the 37th President of the United States.
first tenure, Nixon the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the and gradually end of that split the country into war. He developed a new China policy, support China's entry into the United Nations, and a visit to China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit China, and also the first visit to the countries do not have formal diplomatic relations with the United States. June 17, 1972, U.S. Republican President Richard Nixon fight led by the Committee to Re Chief Security Adviser James McCord five people broke into the Democratic National Headquarters, Washington, Watergate building office for wiretapping, the spot was arrested by the police. The results prove that they fight for the Republican presidential re-election of the work of the Committee. Heard the news, Nixon ordered the cover up facts. Behind the scenes, on the one hand trying to get the FBI to stop investigating the matter, on the one hand, bribe the arrested persons, asking them to plead guilty and remain silent, so that the truth of this matter is temporarily covered up. November 7, Nixon won a landslide victory in the re-election. In March 1973, a defendant sentenced to long imprisonment in order to exempt from the confession was political pressure imposed on him, so that he committed perjury at the trial, so to cover up the levees mad flow of the large number of new materials exposed red collapse. Nixon had announced by the Ministry of Justice is responsible for investigating Watergate, the Senate Watergate Committee decided the hearing to the national public broadcasting TV to make Watergate public stirred up greater political waves. Compelled by the situation, President Nixon announced his resignation on Aug. 8, a president was forced to resign in U.S. history. (Lssdjt.com)

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