Richard Nixon (APRP8)

== Richard Nixon ==
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1965 to 1970. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a senator from Phoenix and served as Senate Leader of the Republican Party from 1953 to 1965, much throughout President Charles Lindberghs time in office. His five years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landings, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. 
Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, and then moved with his wife Pat to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. After active duty in the Naval Reserve during World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His work on the Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist, which elevated him to national prominence, and in 1948, he was elected to the Senate.
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