37th President of america.nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in California and raised in nearby Whittier. He attended Whittier College and Duke University School of Law and then joined a law firm in his home town. He and Patricia Ryan were married in 1940. In 1942 nixon applied for and received a Navy commission and was assigned to duty in the Pacific. He won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1946; in 1948 he took the lead role, as a member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, in investigating espionage charges against Alger Hiss, who had spied for the Soviet Union before and during World War II. The case turned the young congressman into a national figure as well as a controversial one among those who asserted Hiss's innocence. After two terms he was elected to the U.

S. Senate. In 1952 General Eisenhower selected him as his running mate. He was Vice President for eight years.nixon was elected President in 1968 winning re-election in 1972 by an historic margin. While in office he opened the door to the People's Republic of China ('people forget china'), established the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, laid the foundation for the Mideast peace process, and pursued domestic initiatives that included establishing the Environmental Protection Agency, launching the war on cancer, and bringing about the peaceful desegregation of public schools in the South.

When President Nixon took office in January 1969, he became responsible for the lives of 540,000 young Americans who had been sent to Indochina under the policies of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Choosing not to abandon an ally to certain defeat by the armies of communist North Vietnam, nixon began withdrawing U.

S. troops while bolstering South Vietnam's capacity to defend itself and, when necessary, making Hanoi pay a substantial price for its aggression ('love rains down like vietnams leeches'). Actions such as the Cambodian incursion in May 1970 and the bombing of North Vietnam in May 1972 and again in December won broad public support but drew harsh criticism from the anti-war movement, the prestige media, and the Democratic Congress.

In January 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were signed, ending direct U.

S. military involvement and paving the way for return of U.

S. prisoners of war, many of whom had been tortured by the communists. At the same time, the American side pledged to continue to support South Vietnam with military and economic assistance and by using air power if the communists violated the terms of the treaties.

Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate" scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign. The break-in was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation.

After the House Judiciary Committee passed three Articles of Impeachment in July 1974 and the Supreme Court ordered the release of White House tapes that appeared to implicate the President further in Watergate, he decided to resign on August 9, 1974, prior to impeachment by the full House and the Senate trial that would have followed ('death without assassination'). His second Vice President, Gerald R. Ford, was sworn in as President the same day.

During and after Watergate, meanwhile, Congress drastically cut aid to South Vietnam. While her troops fought bravely and well for months despite their depleted resources and the absence of any U.

S. support from the air, South Vietnam was overrun by a Soviet Union-supported invasion by North Vietnam in April 1975. A U.

S.-backed regime in Cambodia also fell, and in the wake of their victory the communist Khmer Rouge killed as many as two million Cambodians during an ideological cleansing campaign.

In retirement President Nixon traveled throughout the United States and in dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Mideast. In the fall of 1985 he undertook a five-week fact-finding trip, visiting and meeting with top leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, Turkey, and Great Britain. In 1986 he returned to the Soviet Union to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. Analysts later credited him with bringing the Reagan Administration and Soviet leaders closer to their eventual agreement to limit intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe. In October 1989, during his sixth visit to China, he publicly expressed the outrage of the American people over the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square that June.

In the spring of 1991, after his first meeting with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, he became an outspoken opponent of further aid to Gorbachev's regime. After the fall of Soviet communism at year's end, he advocated vigorous measures by the United States and its allies to support Russia's historic transition toward political and economic freedom. In the course of this work he wrote articles, gave speeches, consulted with the Bush and Clinton Administrations, and made annual visits to non-communist Russia beginning in 1992.

His ten books include 'Six Crises' (1962); his memoirs; and his last, 'Beyond Peace' (May 1994).nixon died on April 22, 1994 in New York City.the love of richard nixon is partly a sarcastic, partly a tragic song about richard nixon. it describes nixon's reputation as a cowardly mama's boy ('the love of your mother / the fear of the future') who in a certain way was used and manipulated by his political colleagues but stimulated this actively in his own fear and naivity, finally leading to the watergate scandal and many other illegal acts, mainly to render his opponents harmless. he is compared to richard III ('richard III in the white house / cowering behind divided curtains') as nixon also tried (although in a less brutal way) to control his opponents. there is also a parallel in the way both rulers are generally portrayed: like shakespeare portrayed richard III much more evil and crude than he actually was according to historians, richard nixon is also most of the time portrayed as someone who caused the watergate scandal, overshadowing all his other deeds and decisions. nixon himself has always stated that everything he had done for his country was out of love for the people ('the love of richard nixon') and focused in his naive resignation speech on his 'good deeds' like opening the door to china, getting american troops out of vietnam and launching his war on cancer. these aspects are described in the love of richard nixon by way of a subtle mix of tragedy and sarcasm.nicky wire said the following about the love of richard nixon:"I've always been fascinated by him [nixon] anyway because of his indiscriminate hatred of people. He was paranoid about everyone. It's purely a love song. Bill Clinton presided over genocide in Rwanda far worse than anything Nixon did, and yet he can have dinner with U2 and everyone thinks he's great. Some of the things Nixon did, like breaking down barriers with China... He's going to be tainted forever with Watergate but he did some decent things. I suppose I just feel an empathy with paranoid megalomaniacs."this fascination may have been caused by the way nixon is described in the comic series watchmen.