Richard Nixon

As we know in the 1970's, Richard Nixon after failing to be president of the U.S  in the 1960's, does eventually get his turn to become president. Nixon is one of those U.S. presidents are are significant to the things going on in American history because there were some pretty important events going on at his time as president. At Vietnam, Nixon wanted to leave the war and his strategy was to somehow make it seem like it was Vietnam's fault. There were protests going on at this point in history for peace and to end the war. Nixon, hoping to end the war quickly, sends a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia, where he sees or believes the Vietcong are supplied at. However, it did not empress the people and instead it made the war seem even longer. At another point, there was the Tet offensive, and even though it was a U.S. victory, politically it was a major lost because it made the war seem to never end. Back in the U.S., Nixon was paranoid of people trying to set him back as president, so he sets up hidden camera and audio recording to catch anyone lying to him. This will later become a big big concern for the American people on the Watergate scandal. In 1972, the Democratic convention headquarters was burglarized by actual government officials. At first it seemed weird why these people would do this, but soon answers start getting told. Soon people started to thick whiter the President knew anything about the Watergate scandal, and he stated at first he didn't. After the Saturday night massacre and many confrontations, the President faced many injustice things in abuses of power. So then in the end he resigns from presidency, being the first U.S. president to resign from presidency.