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
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. He grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. To dukeated and went University Law school. This was in the worst years of the great depression. The mid1930s. During the Second World War he joined the u. S. Navy. Nixonuld see a photo of as an officer. He served with distinction in the pacific. Noncombat but as a logistics expert. Getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time. He was given a series of commendation from his commanders. He was also a very talented poker player. He had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality in someone who is undertaking policy at a highlevel. In 1946 after he had been demobilized from the navy, he ran for congress. On the right, you could see a poster from his first election campaign. In 1946,
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
Joining us. Im brian hackney. And im juliette goodrich. We do begin with lightning, thunder, rain, even hail. Lets check in with darren again on this impressive thunderstorm. It hit us at noontime today across the bay area. Right about between 2 00 and 4 00, 680 and 580 lrp downpours. All four sweeps are going around. The last three hours. Now you see why there was a flood advisory issued this afternoon that was allowed to expire just about an hour ago now for 680, 580, all of the areas there with the brightest colors on your screen and the flashes of lightning. Well put this into the futurecast. It picks up on that complex of thunderstorms, the leftovers of what was moving through the east bay. Well still see showers down here through the hills of the south bay. Im going to be back with the rest of the forecast in a few minutes to show you what comes next. Back to you. Darren, thanks so much. We want to show you some protests going on in san francisco. Chopper 5 over the scene right n
And Steve Paulson is here as well. Hell tell you if you need an umbrella. Maybe in the morning. We do have a weak part of the system coming through and thats going to give us light rain. 40s on the temps is what were looking at right now. 44. 40 livermore 49 in the city. That low in nevada some energy coming around that and also down towards Southern California. The main low is giving us a lot of cloud cover and some very light rain. It could be steady here. A point. 10. Not before they get a little bit more rain. Maybe some snow. 40s on the temps and highs today will still be below average. Cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. I doubt theres anything new but well ask the source. Anything new . Nothing new. But i have realized there are some things that happened on the road. So be careful. Lets go to 28 and talk about san jose. Traffic is moving on pretty well. Accidents still happen and you can see traffic is still moving on pretty well and construction is still happening. So be careful out