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Richard Nixon was born on January 9th of 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. His parents, Frank and Hannah Nixon gave birth to five children. The family was poor and they went through some hard times together. His father owned a service station and a lemon farm close to their house.
Richard attended fullerton high school in california but later made a transfer to whittier high school. He ran but lost for student body president in early highschool. He also graduated second in his class. Nixon was a "standout" in Whitter community college. He was a pretty good athlete too. Before going to Whittier college, he had a scholarship to Harvard University but his family didn't have enough money to pay for the expenses of traveling to Harvard.
At Whittier College, Nixon was offered and he received a full scholarship to Duke University Law School. From there he began to work for a firm named Kroop and Bewley. At this firm he met Thelma Catherine Ryan. Later they were married and had two little girls named Tracia and Julie.
But being a small town lawyer wasn't enough. His family then moved to Washington D. C. where Nixon took a job in Franklin Roosevelt's Office Of Price Administration. Although Nixon had been a Quaker and was able to skip out on any military service, he joined the Navy to be an aviation ground officer in the Pacific.

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There was no combat involved but he came back to Washington with two service stars and serveral awards. These actions eventually moved his rank all the way to a lieutenant commander. Nixon then resigned in January 1946. A group of Whittier republicans wanted him to run for Congress. Nixon was elected to the U. S. House Of Representatives in November of 1946. He was also a member of th...

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... overran by foreign conflicts. Most of all was the Vietnam war. Three hundred of his soldiers were dying per week in Vietnam. He then began to replace American troops with Vietnamese soldiers and this was called the "Nixon Doctrine". Because this was secret, when the North Vietnamese began bombing this began a big problem in politics. When prsident Nixon anounced the war on television, it closed hundreds of universities and other colleges.

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This war immediately grew by six percent. After some conflicts president Nixon decided to step down and resign from his term. He retired with his wife to go back to California. In June of 1993, Nixon's wife died of lung cancer. Shortly after, Nixon died from a stroke on April 22, 1994, ten months after his wife had died. He was buried beside his wife close to his birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.