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
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
Program, i im pleased to introduce our guest, author dr. Ken rutherford. Ken rutherford, ph. D. , is professor in the department of Political Science at James Madison university. He cofounded the Landmine Survivors Network and escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmines. Survivors in bosnia and herzegovina. Brother rutherford was prominent also as a leader in the International Campaign to ban landmines, which won the 1997 nobel peace prize. He has served as director of the center for Internet National stabilization and recovery at gmu. Hes been a peace corps volunteer in mauritania, unhcr emergency refugee coordinator and somalia humanitarian and emergency relief officer in northern kenya and somalia. And as a fulbright scholar in jordan, he holds a ph. D. In government from georgetown university, a b. A. And mba from the university of colorado, where he lettered in football and was inducted into their hall for distinguished alumni. Dr. Rutherford has al
They migrated to the Republican Party. The gop does not talk enough about this either. To your point about social issues or Economic Issues and the Democratic Party does not talk about those issues anymore. Lets talk about life. I am prolife but if you want to talk about economics, you will find there are a lot of people in the Africanamerican Community who understand their community has been devastated by abortion. If you want to talk about the worry and some states about demographics working against us because we have an aging population and you think about the number of lives that have been ended in this country through abortion, that is an economic issue. We are not going to all agree on all aspects of abortion in this country. Even on that issue that people tend to shy away from, there is common ground. On this issue, it is the Democratic Party that has become extreme. I get asked all the time, how can you support the Republican Party platform on abortion . I say how can you suppo
Check of the exclusive accuwether sevenday forecast. When eva said rollercoaster ride chris was like ahhuh. Reporter thats the perfect way to describe it. Some days are up and some days down, were close to springs this is kind of a transition time, we expect to see that during the month of march. A few clouds upstairs, temperatures on the mild side. Winds are picking up, we flip it over to satellite and radar heres the rain from yesterday. What a miserable day yesterday. All that rain during the morning, showrms in the afternoon, a dreary start to the weekend. Fortunately well see a decent amount of sunshine today that will help to dry everything out and temperatures rebound. Cloud cover north and west, everybody sees sunshine later on this afternoon, racism total also pretty much in line what we were calling here, wilmington, 1. 3. Atlantic city, 1. 2. Philadelphia a little bit more than an inch. Allentown,. 9. And trenton 9 tenths of an inch. Dover, 44. And reading, 42. Theres a bit