who did nixon run against for presidency?
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Which time?  John F Kennedy in 1960.  Then Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and George McGovern in 1972.
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truman started in 1945 then eisenhower, JFK, lyndon johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, george H. W. bush, CLinton, and the current bush. Nixon was the one who resigned on August 9, 1974 because of the Watergate controversy and all the Plumbers and crap...there were not two presidents that were impeached
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President Richard Milhous Nixon\n(It really is Milhous without an 'e')
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By far, jimmy carter.  jimmy carter had his head in the sand. but he is the standard for the liberals/democrats today!  negotiate sit down to the table and negotiate away ...  pleeezze.  actually Bobby Kennedy was shot by an Islamic militant Sirhan Sirhan.  so they delcared war on us back in the 60's (Johnson was president) just before nixon was elected... they had to wait for Carter to come along before they could act up again..\n\n\nand in case you don't know the generals on the ground advise the president and he makes the decision based on the information they provide.  they make requests and he grants.  please.  we were loosing the revelotionary war until one pivotal battle, likewise with the civil war, and WWII.  please....you don't know what it takes to win a war either..
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Both of these Presidents have been extremely misunderstood.  However Nixon was caught in absolute lies and a cover up of criminal activities.  Had he not resigned he would have surely been impeached and after he resigned had he not been pardoned he would have still been impeached.  Nixon did do some very important things while in the job.  He opened the doors to Communist China and ended our participation in the War in Viet Nam.   Bush has been accussed of lying to the American People in order to go to war in Iraq, he has not been accused of lying to Congress in order to get the approval to do so.  All parties had the same Intelligence and the same vote was taken by Congress in 1998 while Clinton was President with the same Intelligence then as well.  Nixon did in fact lie to the American People for which he later paid a heavy price as well as apoligize to the American People.  However it is not against the law to lie to the American Public if it were then our prisons would be full of politicians that ran for office.  Whereas I believe that President Bush if he did in fact lie was not aware that what he was saying was not the truth at the time he said it.  Nixon did know and did it anyway.  The WMD question will haunt all of us for years to come, if they don't end up in the hands of a terrorist group as is thought what has happened in Amann, Jordan within the past few weeks in a plot that was foiled by the same intelligence that we complain about President Bush abusing our rights by listening to our International calls and e-mails.\n\nAfter Nixon resigned the office of President of the U.S. he was considered the most hated man in history in polls that were done at that time.  This pushed Adolph Hitler to number two for the first time in over 30 years.  When Nixon died there were people lined up for Eight Miles to walk by and pay their respects to a man who had once been President.  I believe that History is going to prove the Bush was right, however it may be a few years after he is out of office before that happens.  We here in America always seem to complain about the President that we have at the time and love them when the are retired.
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heheheh and Nixon was a Quaker!
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W is the worst!\n\nAt least Nixon knew when to step down.
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During Nixon's administration, Rep. VP Agnew was caught cheating on his taxes by the IRS. He resigned his office. Nixon then appointed Gerald Ford to take his place. When the Watergate burglary investigation was implicating Pres. Nixon, Nixon resigned and Rep. VP Gerald Ford became President, appointing Rockefeller  to the VP opening. The U.S. then had a President AND Vice President that was never elected by the people. Ford gave Nixon immunity  from prosecution for any crimes he may have committed while in office.\n\nNow give me all those thumbs down..........I love em'. \n\nThis set a double standard of justice in our country. While ordinary citizens were being prosecuted and jailed for far lesser crimes, President Nixon received the so called "Get out of jail free" card. It defied the U.S. Constitutional Bill of Rights concerning "equal justice".
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Nixon indded was a strong leader.  I am 49 so I clearly remember the Nixon years.  When the recession became frightening he took the unprecedented step of a wage and price freeze.  A gutsy move that was not real popular.  It did help.  His quiet negotiations to China and the USSR were very impressive.\n\nOn the flip side Nixon did more than just lie.  His administrations use of the IRS to hound administration enemies was certainly criminal and his secret enemies lists were frightening.\n\nI hope history will eventually treat him as it should any president.  There were amazing strong points to his presidency and incredible weak points.  True historians usually give both sides and acknowledge that he was amazing with foreign policy and some internal policies while being a deeply paranoid one.  I do differ with some of those answering your question though.  He did indeed have to resign.  The votes for impeachment and removal for office were clearly there.\n\nIn short Richard Nixon was a human being.
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I would challenge the "not hotly contested" - Carter started off with a lead, but it did get closer towards the end of the race. He only won by about 3 percentage points and it was also fairly close electorally.\n\nAs to the issues themselves, Watergate kind of overshadowed every election in both 1974 and 1976. Carter presented himself as an outsider, someone untainted by Washington politics who would clean up the system.\nFord basically played the experience card, arguing that Carter lacked the experience to lead the country.\nThe other major issues were economics, especially inflation and Ford's inability to control it (look up WIN buttons).\nAnd Ford did make a major faux pas about the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe during one of the debares.
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This is kind of a lopp sided question as it is always easier to complain about whatever we currently have.  However in this case the answer would be George W. Bush.  I have read some of the answers that you have gotten and some are based on complete misconceptions.  Yes our economy was better under the Clinton Administration, however that was due to the fact that the things that Reagan did for the economy were finally bearing fruit.  By the end of the Clinton years we were back into recession that plagued the early Bush Administration.  Clinton campaigned in 1992 promising National Health Insurance, however in his 8 years as President was not even able to get it to the floor of Congress.  Clinton had Congress's approval for the same reasons as Bush did in 1998 to go to war with Iraq, yet he never followed through with it.  If we blame Bush for making mistakes in his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress and the President made the same mistake in 1998.  What seems to be a common thing for both the American Public as well as our Politicians is a short attention span and a short memory.  In retrospect most Americans now think of Nixon as being a good President as well as a great statesman, yet in 1974 he was the most hated man in history moving Hitler to number 2 for the first time in over thirty years.
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kennedy, johnson, nixon
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Republican elected to the U.S. House of Reps in 1946 and 1948. Then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1950. Then was elected Vice President in 1952 with Dwight Eisenhower. Then ran for President in 1960 but narrowly lost to Jack Kennedy. Then ran for President again in 1968 and narrowly won. Ran for re-election as President in 1972 and won by a landslide (carried every state except Massachusetts). Then resigned in August, 1974 because he was about to be impeached. The articles of impeachment were mainly directed at the fact that he knew about a breaking-and-entering crime (at the Watergate Hotel, the office of the DNC) and actively tried to cover up the investigation.
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Ever is a big word.  Hayes was known as a bad president.  Garfield, too, I think.  My mother recalls Hoover with venom.  Nixon was tried for impeachment and branded a crook, but he had a few triumphs that washed him in the history books.  I cannot say Bush is the worst president ever, but I will say he is absolutely, the worst to surface in my 42 years of life.
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Gerald Ford was elected neither to the Presidency, nor the Vice Presidency.  He was appointed Vice President upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew, then became President when Nixon resigned.  He was defeated by Jimmy Carter in 1976 when he ran for his own term.\n\nOf course, you'll still have your leftist wags here who will say George W. Bush.  I suggest you take such answers for what they're worth.
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To Bush: "Allthough I do not agree with what you say I shall defend to the death your right to say it."\n\nTo Nixon: "Right on brother down with the establishment."
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I'd say........Howard Dean. He seems to be the most hatefilled of all of them. Maybe that Murtha idiot.