In his second term, Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli losses in the Yom Kippur War, a war which led to the oil crisis at home. He was re-elected with a historic electoral landslide in 1972 when he defeated George McGovern. He also presided over the Apollo 11 Moon landing, which signaled the end of the Space Race. Additionally, his administration pushed for the Controlled Substances Act and began the War on Drugs. Nixon's domestic policy saw him impose wage and price controls for 90 days, enforce desegregation of Southern schools, establish the Environmental Protection Agency, and begin the War on Cancer. In step with his conservative beliefs, his administration incrementally transferred power from the federal government to the states. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he also then concluded the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. Nixon formally ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973, and with it, the military draft, that same year. In 1968, he made another run for the presidency and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in a close contest. Kennedy, then failed again in a 1962 race for governor of California. He ran for president in 1960, narrowly lost to John F. Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 election, and served for eight years as the vice president. His work on the Alger Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist, which elevated him to national prominence, and in 1950, he was elected to the Senate. After active duty in the Naval Reserve during World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, then moved with his wife Pat to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California.
Nixon's second term ended early, when he became the only president to resign from office, following the Watergate scandal. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the first manned Moon landings, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency. His five years in the White House saw the end of U.S. He was a member of the Republican Party who previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
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