And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to
Astra zeneca, to Oxford University in the United Kingdom say their new Coronavirus Vaccine could be up to 90 percent effective. It can be kept for refrigerator temperatures. Unlike other recently announced vaccines. Astra zeneca says it will have 200000000 doses available by years end. China has launched an Unmanned Mission to bring back rocks and desperately from the surface of the moon. , its the 1st mission by any nation to retrieve a lunar samples. Since the 1970 s. , the probe is expected to return with material that will help scientists learn more about earths nearest neighbor, including how it was formed. This is g. W. News from berlin, follow us on twitter and instagram or visit our website. Dot com. The world is starting the 3rd week in a row with news of yet another promising corona virus vaccine. Today, astra zeneca became the latest pharmaceutical to announce that its vaccine is effective at preventing asters it is. Vaccine has important advantages with a price tag of just
He may never again you see is this all the time it was necessary and were going to finally because the New York Times correspondent something straight out of this why for 3 am here in the russian capital. Thanks for joining us on the program today. Now 1st donald trump has said just in the last hour or so that a formal transition can begin for joe biden to take office. This comes after the head of the General Services administration reveals. She was kicking off the procedure, and many murphy said shed been pressured by the democrats to brief them on the transition as early as this choose. They are donald trump, in the meantime, still claims the game is not yet over, but said all protocols for the handover of power should be followed earlier today. The u. S. State of michigan has officially certified its president ial election results, handing joe biden at 16 Electoral College votes. The president elect has already begun busy year, really would busy filling key posts in his proposed adm
Very good move only in New York Times. Correspondent reads Something Like straight out of a spy thriller live from moscow. Thanks for joining us. That was the north international. Welcome to the program. The 1st, the transition process to hand power to president elect. Joe biden has been officially kicked off in the United States. The head of the General Services administration confirmed the news in the last few hours and has more. Emily murphy, of the General Services administration, has said that she is now beginning the process of transitioning to a biden white house. Now she put forward a letter explaining that she was taking this move and she said that she was not asked to do this by anyone in the trump white house. They had not requested that she begin this process. But furthermore, she emphasized that she had been threatened and that she had faced quite a bit of pressure in the lead up to making this decision. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by an executive branch o
Country could be divided on that as with. Theres people who like the packet stapled, and theres the ones who have to rip it apart and scatter the pages around. What can i say . Will pete hegseth was attempting to be very thoughtful and stapling my packet for me pete because the producer said one of the two of you likes it stapled, and it wasnt me i was wrong. [laughter] glared at me. Will ill do better. Jedediah i dont like the staples either. [laughter] will the great question of our time. We move ahead. Long lines across the country as we ready for thanksgiving from airports to food banks. Amid fears of more lockdowns and cases of coronavirus spiking. Millions of americans carrying on with their travel plans. Listen to this on why some travelers think its so important to travel for thanksgiving. I think that traveling during this time is definitely difficult. Im a College Student, so i dont really have much of a choice. Family is, like, the most important thing, period. Not to be aro