Richard Milhouse Nixon

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Richard Milhouse Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was born to Frank and Hannah Nixon on January 9, 1913. He was the second eldest son of five sons and was born and raised in Yorba Linda, California. His father worked as a jack of all trades until buying a family operated store where Richard worked as a child. Hannah Nixon taught Richard to read young, and by age five he was solidly progressing in the three R's. Throughout school Richard was always among the top of his class and upon graduation from Whittier High School he was offered financial scholarships to both Yale and Harvard. The scholarships covered tuition only and Richard was forced to decline them because he would be unable to afford the cost of living while away at school. Instead he attended Whittier College in 1930 and was either President of Vice President of his class three of the four years he was in school. He then was awarded another scholarship to Duke Law School in 1934. In 1937 he graduated form Duke and moved back to California. Three years later he married Patricia Ryan on June 24,1940. Richard started working for the Office of Public Administration in January 1942. Here he helped to fight the threats of inflation and consumer shortages that were then being caused by the war. In August of 1942, Nixon joined the Navy. As a lieutenant, he was stationed in Iowa as a communications officer, even though Iowa was no where near the war. Later he was moved to New Zealand and took part in the invasion of Green Island. He was in the Navy for three and a half years. He then worked for the Pentagon before running for Congress. On November 6, 1950 Nixon won a seat in the Senate. From 1953 to 1960 Nixon served as our Vice President with Dwight D. Eisenho... ... middle of paper ... ... with "no strings attached," based on an allocation formula including population, relative income, urbanization, and tax effort. It no longer exists today (GREENE, 312). OLAD AGE SURVIVORS DISABILITY AND HELATH INSURANCE- (OASDHI) Social Security benefits which are available to insured workers at age 65, dependent spouses are eligible at age 62, and dependant children under the age of 18 are also eligible to receive funds if a worker dies, is disabled, or retired (MORALES, 110). Bibliography: BIBLIOGRAPHY Aitken, Jonathan, Nixon: A Life, 1993 Dresang and Gosling, Politics and Policies in American States and Communities, 1996. Greene, John Robert, The Limits of Power, 1992. Hoff, Joan, Nixon Reconsidered, 1994. Morales and Scheaffor, Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces. Voorhis, Jerry, The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon, 1972.

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