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
Down from canada the wild mallards come in autumn, green heads pointing south. Thousand miles of Mississippi Valley below them. Quite a view from america. More limited, but still a pleasant view, america from a school room window in nebraska. The view of a country, any country is harsh through iron bars. Im joseph wells. I am a lawyer. A flight of birds, some americans in trouble, and a white temple on the hill. This is the story i want to tell you. It is the story of the Supreme Court of the United States. You feel very small when you stand in the entrance of the Supreme Court building in washington. The corinthian columns rise three stories high, made of marble from the quarry of the state of vermont. Inside, gleaming marble from alabama is underfoot and all around you. And polished walls and columns under a covered ceiling. In this room, historic meetings take place. With jurists of other days observing from the mall walls. A staircase of bronze and marble spirals upwards. In the ha
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Emory university provided this video. Prof. Allitt todays class is about president Richard Nixon and his National Security advisor, Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people ever to occupy the white house and had incredible political gifts. And on the other hand, hes one of the worst people to ever occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of paranoia. He was mistrustful, sometimes against the instruments of government like the state department. In the end, ruined himself by bringing about his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 19721974. We are going to look at the good and the bad side of the nixon presidency and nixons partnership with National Security advisor kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we could look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born in 1913. In whittier, california. He grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He
Roll back 20 its still not enough to get it done thats why theres also a lawsuit in the bottle thats why theres also a lawsuit in michigan thats why theres also a lawsuit in arizona tonight you have to be able to roll back by going behind the 264 heres where this gets so messy if the Supreme Court comes in and ultimately is the court that rolls back some of this and this is why its very smart the biden comes out tonight and essentially declares himself the winner if he doesnt then it looks like this things still up in the air but if it looks like the Supreme Court who are not elected theyre appointed to this judicial seat are the ones rolling back an election half the countrys angry at that if the Supreme Court donald does not intervene half the country is angry about that so heres the problem is that at this point you have a country so divided between whether or not you have a legitimate president that it doesnt matter of biden as president or trump as president the country is going t